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CIHM/ICMH 

Microfiche 

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CIHM/iCIVIH 
Collection  de 
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reproductic.-i,  or  which  may  significantly  change 
tha  usual  method  of  filming,  are  checked  below. 


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plus  grand  soin.  compte  tenu  de  la  condition  et 
de  le  netteti  de  Texemplaire  film*,  et  en 
conformity  avec  les  conditions  du  contrat  de 
fiimage. 


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beginning  with  the  front  cover  and  ending  on 
the  last  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres> 
sion,  or  the  back  cover  when  appropriate.  All 
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sion, and  ending  on  the  last  page  with  a  printed 
or  illustrated  impression. 


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papier  est  imprimie  sont  filmAs  en  commen9ant 
par  le  premier  plat  et  en  terminant  soit  par  la 
dernlAre  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  le  second 
plat,  salon  le  cas.  Tous  les  autres  exempiaires 
origineux  sont  film6s  en  commenpant  par  la 
premiere  p«ige  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration  et  en  terminant  par 
la  dernlAre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 


The  last  recorded  frame  on  each  microfiche 
shall  contain  the  symbol  -^  (meaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  the  symbol  V  (meaning  "END"), 
whichever  applies. 


Un  des  symboles  suivants  apparattra  sur  la 
derniire  image  de  cheque  microfiche,  selon  le 
cas:  le  symbole  — ►  stgnifi9  "A  SUiVRE".  le 
symbols  V  signifie  "FIN". 


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different  reduction  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
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beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  as 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
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reproduit  en  un  seul  ciich*.  il  est  film6  A  partir 
de  Tangle  sup6rieur  gauche,  de  gauche  d  droite, 
ot  de  heut  en  bas.  en  prenant  ie  nombre 
d'images  n^cessaire.  Les  diagrammes  suivants 
illustrent  la  m6thode. 


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Pev.  and  Dear  Sir, 

WE  the  subscribers  have  been  rc((ue!5(t'(l,  byyour  p  risbi<tnoi*» 
and  others,  ^vho  attended  on  the  iteliveriii!^  of  ytnir  very  patriotic  and 
interestini?  discourses  on  the  late  Fast,  to  solicit  acopy  ol  thsm  for  the 
press. 

IFe  are,  dear  sir,  iviih  sentiments  of  vert/  great  re'iped, 

ynnr  obedient  seri'dttts, 

JOIIX  O^RIEX, 
WILLIAM  DAVIS, 
HrEPIIiiX  F110TI1L\GHAM 

REV.    JOHX  CILKS. 


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To  Capt.  John  O^Brieu,  C'upt.  William  Davis,  atid  Mr.  Stephen 

Frotliingham. 
Gentlemen, 

IN  coniplianec  with  your  request,  I  furnish  you  with  copies  of 
the  diseoiirses  which  were  delivered,  with  thi?  desii;ii  of  attaching  my 
parisliioners,  still  more,  if  possible,  to  our  invaluable  rights  and  priv- 
iler^s,  and  to  incite  in  them  increasing  gratitude  to  that  God  who  has 
so  eiuinenlly  distinguished  iis  above  every  other  nation. 

I  am  your  servant  in  the  gosjjel  of  C/irist, 

J.  GILES. 
ti\*ewbiiri/port,*iiig,  26,  181:2. 


DISCOURSE    I. 


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PSALM    Cvi.    21. 

VFj,  Tiir.r  DE.spisr./)  the  pleas.lxt  ljxd. 

fW^\\^?<  Psalm  is  a  short  and  conciso  Jii«lorv  oi*  the  muHIprud  and 
X.  "'.nprovoked  ivbeiJions  of  the  nnijratpfii!  Israelites;  and  the  wri- 
ter of  it  enmncrates  their  sins  and  provoeation*  asaiuit  the  ;;o;)(ln>^ss 
and  hlessin:;s  of  God  nnto  them.  Jehovah  had  eoniliu'tei!  thein  safely 
through  svjenes  the  most  (ryin;.;,  and  thron^h  dangers  the  i!\;)st  formida- 
ble and  imminent,  and  hro'iiijht  them  to  tlie  tMrnfines  of  the  jironiised 
land;  \,\\\  the  spies  hron^ht  an  ill  report  of  it,  thoui^ii  they  owned  it  was 
a  land  which  overflowed  with  milk  and  ho^ey;  hut  that  there  were  such 
diilienlties  to  possess  it,  whicji  they  thought  insiiperal)le;  an<l  henec  the 
people  despised  it — in  as  niueli  as  when  they  were  hid  to  ^o  and  possess 
it,  they  refused;  ami  did  not  chuse  to  ho  at  any  ditVuMilly  in  snbdiiing 
the  inhabitants  of  it,  or  run  any  risk  or  haz;ird  of  iheir  lives  in  takin;^ 
it,  though  the  Lord  had  promised  to  i;ive  it  them  and  seitle  them  in  it. 
But  they  seemed  rather  inclined  to  make  themselves  a  captain,  and  re- 
turn to  Egypt,  wliieli  was  interpreted  a  despising  the  pleasimt  land. — 
See  Nnmh.  xiv.  1. 

This  history  conveys  much  instruction  to  ns,  and  is  wcil  adapted  to 
the  designs  of  the  day.  And,  hefere  we  proceed  in  illustrating  and  im- 
proving it;  the  speaker  must  premise,  that  it  is  not  his  inienlion  to  ir- 
ritate and  inflame  the  feelings  of  any,  in  what  lie  n»ay  deliver  ii}»on  the 
present  occasion.  His  motives  are,  t!i(>  discharge  of  duty,  and  publicly 
to  avow  his  warm,  firm,  and  decided  altachment,  \<^  the  country  \\hich 
has  adopted  him  as  its  citizen,  and  to  the  illustrious  character  who  at 
present  presides  over  it;  and  to  this  duty  lie  is  urged  hy  lively  gratitude, 
and  the  solemn  oath  which  he  has  taken,  of  undeviating  Hllegiunce  to  it. 

Yu\%'v...Enqn'n'e  what  are  thane  things  which  are  absuliiteln  necessarij 
to  coiifititute  a  Umd pleamvf.     And  we  observe, 

1.  That  a  climate  the  most  salubrious,  and  a  sail  the  most  fertile  and 
luxuriant,  which  may  spontaneously  produce,  not  only  all  the  necessa- 
ries, but  even  the  luxuries  of  life,  may  be  rendered  unhappy,  and  all 
tliese  sweets  blighted,  and  marred,  through  the  intruding  liand  of  some 
assuming  and  unfeeling  tyrant.  Such  has  been  the  state  with  the  fer- 
tile lands  of  Port!!;,^:\!.  Spain  and  Italy:  and  such  is  the  still  existing 
state  of  more  prolilie  Turkey.  The  God  of  nature  has,  in  thoic  coun- 
tries, scattered  his  gifts  most  profusely;  but  they  are  placed  beyond  the 
reacii  of  the  great  mass  of  the  people;  a  favoured  few,  engross  the 
sweets  to  themselves,  and  like  the  forbidden  fruit  of  Paradise,  no  hand 
dare  pluck  them  without  incUi'ring  the  displeasure  of  their  lords  and 
masters.  Thus,  the  kind  bounties  of  an  indulgent  providence,  are  pros- 
tituted, and  his  creatures,  who  have  a  natural  riglit  to  enjoy  them,  ar« 


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tantalized  with  havini-  them  in  continual  view,  but  never  are  filled  with 
the  swcetnesH  ofthtMn.  This  must  turn  the  most  pleasant  and  truiltul 
land  into  a  sterile  and  painful  wilderness;  a  land,  which  none  of  us,  my 
hearers,  would  chuse  as  his  home  to  dwell  in,or  as  his  place  of  sojourneying. 

2.  To  render  a  land  pleasant,  its  inhabitants  must  enjoy  equal  ridH* 
and  privileges,  otherwise  it   can  be   pleasant  only  to  a  favoured  lew, 
while  the  great  majority  are  rendered  objects  of  misery,  throiigli  penury 
and  distress;  and  thus,  the  comforts  and  blessings  of  civilized  socict) . 
he  abused  and  subverted,  and  even  prostituted  to  tlie  most  ignoble  an»l 
basest  of  purposes.    We  will  demonstrate  and  illustrate  this,  net  only 
from  ancient,  but  modern  governments.     And  here  we  observe,  that  so- 
ciety  in  every  state  is  a  blessing;  but  government  in  its  best  state  is  but 
a  necessary  evil,— in  its  worst  state,  an  intolerable  one.     For  when  we 
suffer,  or  are  exposed  to  the  same  miseries  by  a  government,  which  we 
migiit  expect  in  a  country  without  government,  our  calamity  is  height- 
ened, bv  reflecting  that  we  furnish  the  means  i>y  which   we  sufter.— 
Government,  like  dress,  is  the  badge  of  lost  innocence.     The  palaces 
of  kin^s.  are  built  on  the  ruins  of  the  l)owcrs  of  Paradise.      In  ancient 
Greece,  monarchy  was  the  government  which  they  first  formed;  but  this 
they  soon  fi)U«d  degenerate  into  tyranny.      Hence  the  term  tyrmtt,  was 
iustly  applied  to  them.     And,  indeed,  the  word  originally  signified  no 
mere  than  king,  and  was  anciently  the  title  of  lawful  princes.      But 
monarchy  gave  way  to  a  republican  government,  which,  however,  was 
diversified  into  almost  as  many  various  forms  as  there  were  different 
cities,  according  to  the  different  genius  and  peculiar  character  of  each 
people.    But  still  there  was  a  tincture,  or  leaven,  of  the  ancient  mo- 
narchical government,  which  frequently  inflamed  the  ambition  of  private 
citizens,  and  made  them  desire  to  become  masters  of  the  country.     In 
almost  every  state  of  Greece,    some  private  persons  advanced  them- 
selves, by  cabal,  treachery  and  violence,  and  exercised  a  sovereign  au- 
Jhority,  with  a  despotic  empire;  and  in  order  to  suppirt  their  unjust  n- 
surpations,  in  the  midst  of  distrusts  and  alarms,  they  thought  themselves 
obliged  to  prevent  imaginary  or  suppress  real  conspirators,  by  the  most 
cruel  proscriptions,  and  to  sacrifice   to  their  own  security,  all   those 
whom  rank,  merit,  wealth,  zeal  for  liberty,  or  love  of  their  country,  ren- 
dered obnoxious  to  a  suspicious  and  unsettled  government,  and  which 
fouud  itself  hated  bv  all,  and  was  sensible  it  deserved  to  he  so.     What 
we  have  renuirked  of  Greece,  will,  with  a  few  shades  of  difterence,  ap- 
ply to  ancient  Rome. 

Let  us  now  take  a  view  of  the  modern  governments  of  Europe,  and 
examine  how  far  they  are  calculated  to  add  to  the  peace,  comfort  and 
happiness  of  mankind;  and  in  tlie  attempt  our  souls  must  overflow  w  itli 
gratitude  to  God,  if  sensible  of  the  superior  blessings  and  privileges  we 
enjoy  in  this  our  favoured  land.     For, 

3.  A  land  to  be  pleasant,  must  have  governors  ^nd  magistrates,  qual- 
ified and  suited  to  the  dignity  and  high  stations  they  fill;  nor  can  they 
command  the  respect  and  affection  of  those  they  rule  over,  unless  they 
are  the  men  of  their  choice.  For  the  truth  of  this,  I  appeal  to  your 
judgment.    Should  we  feel  happy,  were  a  man  to  be  forced  upon  us,  as 


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,.5  your  persons,  ^^^!;^;^X  ^^^^"^^^  .3  b:.^ary,^he  cu.e 

;:,ui  the  ^f^^f^^^^-^-^^^^:^^^^    what !;; 

anchored  ..ic  ot  V-^::  ow\le.Madi,^  t'.is  l./an  enlightened  poopK-l 

call  king,  IS  hered.ta  J .  ^^^^^^^^^^  a.h.ils  every  spe- 

It  is  a  system  ot  menial  ^^'^  "''"f'  ,  I  "'^'yj'^  and  vlHue.  ignorance  and 
cies  of  character  to  the  «'^';'  ,!  f  ^^^  Jf  ^^  h^i' V''<  •>"  "- -^""^  ^'''^' 

«t*  Icings.     ISO  man  more  heartily  wisUe^,  iiiin  m.^tu,  „„,  n,p 

^  feikppy  and  i--raUe  state  of  p^^^^^^^^  l^^l^am  h 

avowed  and  open  enemy  oi  ^vLa    i^  u    c     "  ''^    '  ^  ^^^_„^^^^  j     i,^.  ,„y  ^t- 
principles  which  nothing  can  eith.r  ;^  ^^-'^    '  *^ "'^  '  .i;\  ^{^^^-^  ,    4u^  i\n- 

{achmint  to  ^-T^'^'^J^X:::^^^^^^^^^  '  -l'^' 

the  ease  and  honor  oi  the  •"""'"'    ^;;^^5    J  Hnidren,  and  governed  by 

imwever  lerlile  tlit  m)i  ,    i  o\y.v  ..,oanin-  under  special 

urtsand  sciences,  deprived  ol  :  s  ^'' ^^;  V;;^^;''^,;;^';^       ^,e   in  tlJe  full 
marks  of  divine  displcasj.re.-  Let     ^l^  ^  ^,;/J  4.;,^..  iV(,m  ourselves 
possession  a.<l  free  exercise  of   he  !>'• ;  l'^«        i^eompLnsation  f.v  the 
\nen  to  be  our  rulers;  ami  while  7,.f^;\VrirsevS    tat  ions,  which 
services  which  they  render  the  l»uh  u,  m  tl^ir  '^^,'';  ' . ".''^  ,  •..;      yet 
rbul  just  and  reaL,nahle;  t^r  the  !ubom.r  is  v  m^>    ;  1;-  ^     ; ^  ^^ 
goverleut  in  America  .s  wlu^  it  "['S^^J,^  !  '  f^'  i^^',  ,,p..,e  of  lucre, 
trust,  and  not  made  a  trade  of,  as  in  1^' "S  ^^    '^  ''.]         >     ^^  ^j-  ,,,,5.1,. 
4.    That  which  constitutes  a  land  ple.Mi  t  y'     :^^^    j^  „^,^,,:,. 

To  see  every  member  of.it,  in  t^hce.M<>y.ne.>W^-^^^ 
lies  oHiie;  we  do  not  mean,  hat  one  ^  '^  •\'^r',i^;;  Z,;.  r^r  here  will 
erty.  lV>r  this  never  was  ^-'f'-  Jj^  ^^^^l^^^^oftle  benevolence 
he  some  who  are  comparatively  poo  ,  *''J.^'^  .!",,!' ''^'.^j^  „r  hunger,  all 
of  the  rich.  But  that  none  shou  d  «»^-  ^^,«  ^^^  houhU.e  able 
Mho  are  in  the  enjoymenr  ol  heal  h,  '"  '  ^'^  '"  'f  j^  '  We  i.less  Cioi} 
by  ujode-ate  labour,  to  procure  thp  conuor>.  c>i    in^- 


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i 


(hat  Mich  a  nica.ant  Ihu.I  is  our  ;uheri(anc»«.  Tl^-rc  is  a  suHineiiCT  ,)f 
.read  for  a  .  Let  (he  people  hero  ho  but  diligent,  and  T  V  v  yl  « 
w.II  place  them  ,„  a  state  of  ia.lepe...Ienee.     (?  ho  v  .lillWentVfhiH 

Vuiroramp"\r,   '?'■■'"'''   7«  ""^rrovidenee  favored  them  ui'th  a 
uitl   I  land?    \>  0  reply,  prov,de.ice   has   n.,t  I.een  to  them  sparine  ii. 

U  gitts:  hut  through  (he  iM.nnln,^  craft  of  men,  i  hese  ^ifts  are  T'JoJs e 
hy  alew  choice  spirits,  who  riot  in  luxury,  at  the  eJpen  roV  ?he  la 
hourer    he  mechanic  and  the  huslK.ndman:     We  .ill  e^xplain  our  mean- 
in^~l  he  cinof  ma^,s(rato  of  En^-land  receives  a  million  sterlin-  eiory 
vear;  the  other  branches  of  his  family,  n.arly  the  same  sum,  andaE 

A.     all  (h.s  ,s  yvrung  from  the  hard  eariu.^^s  of  the  labourint;  poor.     It 

s  th  s  wretched  system  yvhich  causes  the  land  to  mourn,  yvhieli  c myvds 

the  s  reetj  yv.th  beggars,  and  yvhich  drives  men  to  the  despemte  ac^^ 

|. vadjng  the  property  of  o(hers;  for   yvhat  yvill  not  hunger  impel  mc.; 

ves     lesrihirJ'  "^^"-'^'•'^'•S-'l  «o"H.  present  have  Ln  yviU,  thei;. 

0  ,r  ^ie  V  frnn  .1     *"" •  1.'''"  '''"'  '''^'''''  ^"^  ^^'  ^^'^'-     B"^  »<^t  us  turn 
ditJon  I  H        I  '"'^  s««ken,n^^  s^^ones,  and  contemplate  our  oyvn  con- 
Iit.on  on  these  happy  shores,  a.»d  yve  see  an  extent  of  territory,  tyvelve 
t.mes  larger  than  England,  and  the  expen.:e  of  the  sev  ru£^^ 

irZoV""^\''''!^J^''''!'     '^^'"^  »^^-'^^'   whic1»mUu;e       ante* 
-wZ  „!f-"  '•'    t''  "^^'''*  "^^^'^"^-        Thus  Moses  describes  them 
rlXn  ".V/,^."''^''"^'''"*^*'  *''^t  ^'^^h  statutes  and  indgments  T« 

righteous,  as  all  this  Layv  which  I  set  before  you  this  day?"'^  Without 

Its  "ft  gITJ'  ''''^'''?i  P^'^P'^'  '^^«  -  »»^"-  th^rrefiued  s^y"! 
ages.     Iha  Gospel  is  a  pearl  of  great  price;  it  is  the  glory  and  honour 

.t  sdiyation.     Inide  and  commferGe,  may  gain  and  i)re*ervp  an  estate' 

oul'    wU:\Te'V'"^  'r-^'  '"^  ''?  ?•'  ''^^  "ouriJh  an';;:;  up tl  I 

to  diVeclus    t  e  iu.  J  •  "  '""""'^  i':^^'sht  is  removed  yvhicl.  iiable 

«V  '?'  l"*:  1*^'^"   J*^   removed  which  can  only  enrich  us      In   lh.» 

ll,P  t?„*l        f  I  "'"  */"'l"''  "  «°"'l'a'«I  to  Heaven,  an.l  so  ealle.l 

ni.  .„  1  ?i      i  *7."'  ""  '"  "'"  '™'"  »f  it.  Ill"}  «™  said  lo  be  easi 
down  to  ,ell.     See  Malt,  lo,  3J.      So  that  what  resemblance  there  i, 

e   tTem  trhdr'R'r"'''''"'^--;  that  there  i,  het„::rthe"a 
GolnXle^lt,    ,,tl  „;      "n    ».*'^l"'f''""  *™™  «'"li  «"  "'«  when  the 
3     When  the  Ik       ff '1'"'''  ''"''"■■'  "'"'  ■''  »'"'  .i'-'lg^ont,  sne- 

oxeeute  the  ,Ie;,r„e,iv;.  rte^::%'a'i„^;t  t  d^''  vTr'  TT^'w hea" 
the  word  of  God  i,  rc.„„ved,  the  sirJn^th  of  a  nation  departs     The  or 
Jtoanee,  of  (.od  are  the  towers  of  Sioa!     The  temi-leTasnot  o  ,i; 


iHirieiicy  ;)f 
a  few  years 
rent  is  this, 
(lie  Piiijuiry 
lem  with  a 
sparin:*  in 

0  «'iij»rossp(l 
of  tlie  la- 

» our  inean- 
rlinsj  every 

and  a  lon^ 
niioiis  size. 
5  poor.  It 
ieli  crowds 
rate  act  of 
impel  men 

with  their, 
let  118  turn 
r  own  con- 
try,  twelve 
apartments 
what  is  al- 
ls of  ^race 

land,  and 

Israelites 
ibes  them: 
,^ments  so 
Without 
'fined  sav- 
nd  honour 
n  the  way 
an  estate, 
ron  up  th(j> 
ich  is  aide 
'.,  In  the 
atos  in  an 

1  so  called 
re  said  to 
to  he  east; 
e  there  is 
I  the  want 
when  the 
lents  8HC- 
rub  to  the 
nanded  to 

When 

The  or- 

lot  only  ii 


|>lace  of  worship,  but  a  bulwark  too.  The  ark  wa*  often  carried  by 
the  Israelites  into  the  camp,  because  there  their  >ilrenji;lh  lay.  And 
when  David  was  chased  away  by  his  son  Altsaloni,  he  takes  the  ark  of 
the  tttbernacle,as  his  greatest  slrenj^th  a^ainst  the  dL'feetion  of  his  son 
and  subjects.  This  blessinii;,  my  hi'arers,  we  enjoy  in  a  peculiar  man- 
ner. rh«  heavenly  manna  profusely  descends  around  our  lents,  and  ev- 
ery one  may  worship  (sod  in  that  form  Stud  manner  which  he  thinks 
accords  best  with  the  volume  ol  inspiration. 

6.  That  which  readers  our  land  the  glory  of  all  lands,   is  to  be  free 
from  all  religious  establiHluneJils,  the  bane  of  society,  and   curse  of  hu- 
man nature.     liCt  ns  enlarge  a  little  on  this  sentiment.     All  religions 
are  iu  their  nature  niild  and  benign,  and  united  with  principles  of  mo. 
rality.     They  could  not  have  maHe  proselitcs  at  first  by  |»rofe.*sing  any 
thing  which  was  vicious  and  persecuting,  or  immoral.     How  is  it  then, 
that  they  lose  their  native  mildness,  and  become  morose  and   intolerant? 
It  proceeds  from  an  alliance  between  church  and  state.     The  inqiii* 
nition  in  Spain  and  Portugal,  does  not  proceed  IVom  the  religion  ori 
t^inally  professed,  but  from  tikismulc  animal,  as  one  calls  it,  engendered 
t)etween  church  and  slate.     The  burnings  in  Smilhfield,  proceeded  froin 
the  same  iieterogeneons  production;  and  it  was  the  regeneration  of  this 
strange  a.m\ni\\,afterivar(ls,  in  the  nation  now  called  the  hnlitark  of  our 
r«/t«-io«,  which  revived  rancour  and  irreligion  among  the  inhal>iiants 
there,  and  which  drove  the  people  called  di>»senters  andquakers  to  this 
country.     Persecution  is  not  an  original  feature  in  any  religion;  but  it 
is  always  the  strongly-marked  feature  of  all  law-religions,  or  religious 
established  by  law.     Take  away  the  law-establishment,  and  every  re- 
ligion reassumes  its  original  benignity.     Here  in  Americft,  a  catholic 
priest  i^a  good  citizen,  a   good  character,    and  A  good  neighbour;  the 
same  may  be  said  of  ministers  of  other  denominations,and  this  proceeds, 
independent  of  men,  from  their  being  no  law-estaldishment  in  America. 
The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  hath    aboli-jhed  or  renounced 
toleration,  and  intoleration  also;  and  hath  established  universal  right  of 
conscience.     Toleration  is  not  the  opposite  of  intoleration,  but  is  the 
counterfeit  of  it;  both  are  despotisms.     The  one  assumes  to  itself  tlie 
right  of  withholding  the  lilierty  of  conscience,  and  the  other  of  granting 
it.     The  one  is  the  pope  armed  with  fire  and  faggot,  and  the  other  is 
the  pope  selling  or  granting  i'ldulgences.     The  former  is  church  and 
state;  the  latter  is  cliurch  and  tralUc.    This  is  the  perverted  state  of 
things  in  that  kingdom,  called  the  ivorld^a  last  hope.     And  though  the 
gospel  is  there  preached,  yet  it  is  the  misfortune  of  many  w  ho  love  it, 
to  have  a  minister  imposed  upon  them,  who  is  an  enemy  to  itj  and  which 
minister  they  must  support,  with  the  tenth  of  their  tythes;  eventhougli 
dissenters  from  the  established  church;  and  what  adds  to  the  turpitude 
of  all  this,  no  man  can  hold  any  place  of  tr«st  or  employ  under  the  gov- 
ernment, who  is  not  an  episcopalian,  without  first  receiving  the  sacra^^ 
nient  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  on  his  bended  knees,  to  qualify  him  for  of- 
fice.    Must  it  not  be  duplicity,  nay,  the  very  essence  of  hypocrisy,  in 
any  man,  to  call  such  a  kingdom,  "  the  bulwark  of  our  religion." 
Use  I.    Let  us  to-day,  deplore,  and  lament  over  our  manifold  sin% 


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8 

^vliich  havi.'  fnnjUt'd  (unl  to  Irt  loose  iipaii  Ui»  one  ol'  liin  sort- jinlu;nM'ii(*- 
'n»a  swoi'l  is  tliiiwii,  ami  inor.'  thiiii  pndnilili',  while  1  am  aildn-HHii^ 
\<iii,  it  18  li.itlj'.Ml  in  till'  ItliHxl  orsuinc  of  our  lellow-citizonH.  It  is  U'hc 
that  at  i»i«M(:il,  lliroji-h  morcv,  it  in  piiucd  at  a  distance  from  uh;  Imt 
noiMO  on  oMi-  JiMnlit  II,  tin  !  oii  the  hcu  have  already  fallen  saerilipes, 
and  ne  fcix  vv  n<i(  how  soon  it  may  he  ptrniiltod  (o  approximate  onrhab- 
it'-.tionh.  '('I»<>  fjite  of  war  i^  always  precarious  and  nncertain.  Let  not 
him  who  piittelh  <m  hi«  armour,  hoast  like  him  who  piittclhit  ofl'.  Ilc- 
memluT  it  is  (lo<i  alone  uImi  j^iveth  lis  the  victory.  Let  our  ever  then 
he  directed  to  him,  and  all  our  expectations  from  him.  This  ny  no 
means  supersedes  tiie  necessity  of  our  wannest  exertions.  No,  it  is 
the  sword  of  lh(!  Lord  and  (iideon.  Let  us  thru  assist  the  hrave,  t;en- 
eroiH  defeinleis  of  our  country,  who  are  viiidicatina;  onr  ria^hts.  and  re- 
dressing our  wrongs.  Let  ns,  I  say.  assist  them  l)y  praver  and  fervent 
cries,  fur  prayer  has  ever  proved  a  powi^rfiil  weapon.  If  it  overcomes 
God,  it  certainly  will  overcome  men.  Thus,  while  the  hand  of  Moset* 
WAS  upheld  i)Y  the  praver  of  Varon  and  Hnrr,  he  prevailed  in  the  Imt- 
tle  against  Anialek.  And  it  is  promised,  that  one  such,  shall  ehace  a 
thousand,  and  two,  jjut  ten  thousand  to  lligUt.  Thus  .lehoshaphat,  af- 
ter he  had  proclaimed  a  fast,  when  a  great  multitude  came  against  him, 
addresses  Ood  in  prayer:  <),  onr  God,  wilt  thon  not  judge  them,  for  we 
have  no  miglit  agaiiisf  tliis  great  company,  which  comet h  against  us, 
neither  know  we  what  to  do,  but  our  eyes  are  upon  thee.  And  when 
they  began  to  sing,  and  to  praise,  the  Lord  routed  their  cnemies,with  a 
great  slur  v,lttcr. 

3.  Lei  IIS  encourage  ourselves  in  the  Tiord,  from  the   nature  of  the 
enemy  we  are   now  engaged  with.    In  our  infancy,  we  humbled  their 
pride,  and  chained  to  the  chariot  wheels  of  onr  triumph,  two  of  their 
most  celebrated  generals;  one  of  which  boasted  on  the  floor  of  Parlia-^ 
ment,  that  w  ith  JOOO  n\en,  he  would  march  in  triumph,  from  one  end  of 
our  continent  to  the  other.     Part  of  his  assertion  seemed  to  be  prophetic, 
for  he  passed  through  a  section  of  our  continent,  not  as  a  conqueror,  but 
a  crest-iaMeii  prisoner.     If  we  atcliieved  such   exploits   in  our  infant 
state,  what  shall  we  not,  through  providence,  be  able  to  do  now  in  our 
manhood.?     Add   to    this   the  multiplied  crimes  of  (he  government  we 
are  opposed  to:  a  government  founded  and  cemented  in  blood,  and  its 
tottenng  stale,  still  upheld  by  blood;  a  government  with  which,  it  is  evi- 
dent, the  Lord  has  a  controversy.     How  different  the  state  of  this,  our 
happy  land.     !Sever  had  a  country  so  many  openings  to  happiness  as 
this;  her  setting  out  into  life,  like  the  rising  of  a  fair  morning,  was  un- 
clouded and  promising:  her  cause  was  good;  her  principles  just  and  lib- 
eral; her  conduct  regulated  by  the  nicest  steps,  and  every  thing  about 
her  wore  the  mark  of  honour.     Here  [  will  give  you  the  language  of 
Mr.  Rush,  the  orator  of  the  day,  at  the  seat  of  our  government,  the  4th 
of  July  la-i*-     When,  let  us  ask  with  exultation,  when  have  embassa- 
dors from  oilier  countries  been  sent  to  our  shores,  to  complain  of  injur- 
ies done  by  tlie  American  States.?    AVhat  nation  have  (he  American 
States  plundered.?     What  nation  have  the  American  States  outraged? 
iTijnii  ^hut  vitf^fg  have  the  American  States  tram'^led?    In  the  pride  of 


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^^H 


tro  j(iili2;ni*'ti(<^. 
m  aildrcHHiiiij^ 
IS.  It  is  Inu- 
»  iVoin  us;  but 
len  saerilices, 
mute  our  hali- 
luiii.  lA't  not 
Ih  it  niW  Uo- 
our  ever  then 
This  oy  »o 
ms.  No,  it  is 
le  hrave,  (^en- 
\!j;\\iH,  jin«i  w- 
IT  ;uid  reivi'Jit 
I*  it  ovfrcoiiu's 
Hind  of  MosoH 
IlmI  in  tlie  Imt- 
shall  cliace  a 
lioshaphal,  at- 
le  against  him, 
^  them,  for  we 
li  against  us, 
u.  And  when 
ncmies,with  a 

nature  of  the 
humblrd  their 
,  two  of  their 
oor  of  Parlia- 
roin  one  end  of 

0  he  prophetic, 
conqueror,  but 
in  our  infant 
do  now  in  our 
'overnment  we 

1  blood,  and  its 
vhieh,  it  is  evi- 
ate  of  this,  our 

0  happiness  as 
rning,  was  un- 
esjust  and  lib- 
try  thing  about 
he  language  of 
rnment,  the  4th 
have  embassa- 
iplain  of  injur- 

1  the  American 
ates  outraged? 
Tn  ihp  iiride  of 


juiticp.  and  irne  lionotir,  we  sajr,  none.    But  v c  hav«  nent  forth  fio6i 
our»elve»  the  mcMcngers  of  peace  and  conciliation,  again  ami  again, 
acrosR  leai,  and  to  distant  countrie.— To  ask,  eamestry  to  sue,  fhr  a 
cessation  of  the  injuries  done  to  us.    They  have  gone  to  protes  ,  under 
the  sensibility  of  real  suffering,  a-ainst  that  course  which  made  \he  per- 
sons and  the  property  of  our  countrymen,  the  subjects  of  indiscriminate 
and  rapacious  spoliations.     These  have  been  the  ends  thev  were  sent  to 
obtain.     Ends  too  fair  for  protracted  refusal,  too  intcUiKible  to  have  been 
entangled  in  evasive  subtilities,  too  legitimate  to  havcTieen  neglected  in 
hostile  silence.     When  their  ministers  have  been  sent  to  us,     .lat  has 
been  the  aim  of  their  missions?    To  urge  redress  lor  ^ron«  done  to^ 
them,  shall  we  a«k  again?    Nd,  the  melaneholV  reverse.     For  in  too 
many  instances,  they  have  come  to  excuse,  to  palliate,  or  even  to  endea- 
Zul  in  some  shape,   to  rivet,  those  inflicted   .y  their  sovereigns  upon 

"Ve,my  hearers,  have  nothing  to  fear  eventually,  in  our  contest  with 
agovemment  so  depraTed  and  corrupt,  as  that  f  ^.h*^  B"'»f  '    «" 
fictitious  wealth  is  depreciating;  her  most  wise  and  v|rtuous  «  alesm^^^^ 
cannot  be  prevailed  upon  to  join,  and  unite  in  her  counc^s;  her  prince 
Je«nt  has,by  his  intemperaiice  and  debaucheries,  reducct^  ^*"*''l.?.tv 
JX  of  an'i/eot;  and  the  multitudes  of  her  poor,  rendered  de«Frate  ly 
hunger,  are  already  threatening  to  overvirhelm  it  w»J»»|>»«''J,^"f  *"'"• 
In  sTlort,  every  sigJ  of  the  times,  indicates  her  speedy  diwelution.  Cer- 
Uiriy  the  rigiteous  God  will  not  suffer  her  wicVed  and  horn^  ravages 
to  «,^navenged,  even  here  upon  earth.    Let  us  wai    awhile,  and  we 
maf  Uve  to  see  the  time,  wherein  it  .hall  not  be  said  by  the  voice  of 
foith,  but  by  the  Yoiee  of  sense  itself,  Babylon,  the  great,  is  fallen,  is 
faUen! 


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DISCOURSE  It. 


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^"^Mi" 


PSALM  106.  2i. 

i'EJ,  TitEY  DESPISED  THE  PLEASAXT  LAJ^D. 

r'l'^IlE  speaker,  in  (he  forenoriii.  called  your  attention,  (o  the  disfirf^ 
i  gijishi-  ;  goodness  of  God,  wiiieh  has  e'xempted  m  a^  a  people,  from 
the  hunlens,  oppressions,  and  calamities,  nnder  which  the  nations  df 
htirope  sfroan,and  which  Wri'Tg  froi/i  the  inhaoitanis,  the  most  plercim^ 
fnes.  0,ir  lines  arefallohiu  pleasant  places:  vea,  we  have  a  goodrv 
Iiewtage:  but  some  among  ns,  like  Jeshurun  of  old,  have  waxed  fat  atfd 
are  kicking  agaJiwt  the  rock  of  salvation.     This  leads  us, 

feEcoND... To  fxhibit  the.  characters  n^ho  despise  the  pleamnt  land. 
W6  charge  no  party,  solely,  a^  iiitplidated  in  (his  crime;  Init  shall  at- 
tempt to  ilemonstrate  that  there  are  sirch  men  Among  us.     And  we  wiM, 
as  we  pi-fllceed  in  our  description,  adhere  to  the  criterion  laid  down  by 
our  Saviour~you  shall  know  them  by  their  fruit. 

1.  Men  may  be  said  to  despise  it,  when  they  make  light  of  their  pri- 
viJegcs,  either  in  a  natural,  moral,  or  politicat  view. 

First,  in  a  natural  view.  The  Metcies,  which  we  call  riaturar.  aro 
those  which  are  necessary  for  our  nourishment  aild  support;  and  that  we, 
as  a  people,  abound  in  these,  is  evident  to  alF.  We  live  irt  a  land  ovch-- 
jiowmg  with  a  rich  variety  of  God's  providentia!  goodness.  Here  is  ho 
leanness  of  teeth;  our  streets  are  not  crowded  with  our  feJJow-creatures, 
soUciting  the  aid  of  our  benevolence—nor  onr  ears  assailed  with  the 
melancholy  talcs  of  indigence  and  distress.  The  parent,  with  pallid 
cheeks,  hollow  eyes,  and  trembling  limbs,  arrest  notour  steps  with  im- 
portunate cries  for  relief  to  their  helpless  infants,  pining  in  want,  and 
the  lamp  of  life  rea<ly  to  expire,  because  destitute  of  means  to  nourish 
it.  We  are  placed  far  from  these  sickening  scenes.  But,  alas!  do  we 
not  mjikc'  light  of  these  mercies?  We  enjoy  the  mercies,  and  forget  tha 
donor.  We  take  what  he  givjes;  but  pay  not  the  tribute  he  deserves. 
The  Israelites  forgot  God  their  Saviour,  which  had  done  great  thinff^ 
111  Egypt.  We  send  God's  mercies,  where  we  would  have  liim  semi  our 
81118,  into  a  land  of  forgetful aess;  and  write  his  benefits,  where  he  him- 
self will  write  the  names  of  the  wicked;  in  the  dust,  which  every  wind 
eftaees.  We  forget  his  goodness  in  the  sun,  while  it  warms  ub— in  th« 
showers,  while  they  enrich  us— and  in  the  com,  while  it  nourishes  us. 
It  IS  an  injustice  to  forget  the  benefits  we  recieive  from  man,  but  a  crime, 
of  a  higher  nature,  to  forget  those  dispensed  to  us  by  the  hand  of  God, 
jvho  gives  us  those  things  wlxich  all  the  world  cannot  furnish  us  without 
him.  It  is,  in  God's  judgment,  a  brutishness  beyond  that  of  a  stupid 
ox,  or  a  duller  a^s.  The  ox  kuoweth  his  owner,  and  the  ass  his  mas- 
ter 8  crib,  but  Israel  doth  not  know,  my  people  do  not  consider.  How 
homble,  tlitt  God  should  lose  more  by  his  bounty,  than  he  would  by  his 


# 


'^ 


CD. 

lo  tJie  disfirf-' 
.  people,  from 
le  nations  df 
nost  piercing 
uve  a  ,u;oo(iry 
axed  fal  auril 

mt  land. 
Init  shall  af- 
\n<l  we  wiM, 
aid  down  by 

of  their  pfi- 

riatnraf.  are 
and  that  we, 
I  a  laml  ovet- 
Here  is  i\n 
w-creatures, 
led  with  thf 

with  pallid 
ps  with  ini- 
in  want,  and 
iS  to  nourish 

alas!  do  we 
nd  forget  the 
le  deserves, 
^reat  thing^^ 
him  send  our 
lere  he  hini- 
i  every  wind 
8  ub — in  th« 
lourishes  us. 
,  but  a  crime, 
land  of  God, 
h  us  without 
:  of  a  stupid 
ass  his  mas- 
ider.  How 
bvould  by  hi!) 


11 
oarsimony.  Tf  we  had  blessings  more  sparingly.  Me  should  remember 
|,im  im>re  gratetullv.  If  he  had  sent  us  a  bit  oi  bread  in  distreHS,  by  a 
nviracleies  he  did  lo  Elijah,  by  the  ravens,  we  should  retain  it  in  our 
memor^.  But  the  sense  of  daily  IWours,  soonest  v  ear  out  ot  our  minds, 
which  ap  as  g.  - 1  mira«lD8,as  any  in  their  om\  nature,  and  the  product«4 

«f  ihe  same  power.  ....      •  •»  i  „«  ,«« 

Secondly,  We  despiseour  moral  and  spiritual  imvileges,  v\hen  wc 
rcieet  the  truths  of  revealed  religion.     ThiS  is  one  of  the  crying  sins  ot 
oiir  land.     Errors  wb-ch  were  aLaost  obsolelej^  are  reviving,  and  the 
urolessors  of'those  pernicious  doctrines,  are  dany  multiplying  an«l  ni- 
Teasi.'  by  which  tie  glories  of  Christ  are  laid  prostrate  in  the  ikist; 
ind  the'  bj^-et  of  the  christian's  dcntrest  hope  is  degraded   ami  bi^nght 
down  to  a  level  with  a  creature,  so  that  we  had  need  to  tremble  a   the 
prrpects  before  us;  for  thene  sentiments,  like  the  exp  nsion  of  a  subtcr- 
Janeius  fife,  may  ere  long  burst  forth  and  spread  r>Hn,  slau^hU  r,  and 
death   a  laroum!,  shonUfthey  become  the  creed  of  an  established  reli- 
S  '  I  etlone  say,  we  live  in  an  age  too  enlightened,  lor  rejigious 
^,e'"*eeut^^n  t'>  gain  head.    But  stop;  let  us  for  a  moment  exanume  live 
{,rce  of  his  re'^tsoning;  and  one  remark  shall  sul  ce.     Could  any  of 
y  l^^"eVe  vble  patriot?,  who  iojfully  took  the  spoiluigo   your  good., 
ami  wa  ltd  your  way  through  fdood  to  gain  the  pmnaelc  ol  .l»erty,  could 
vou       no  rat  the  close  ofyour  national  struggle,  that  m  the  year  1812, 
lour  Xviiti.ensshould\e.ome  objects  of  persecution,  lor  an  ^ 
ment  to  those  very  sentiments,  for  which  so  many  of  our  iuth^rs  bled 
and  died      And  nLa.e  the  characters  who  fonjent  an.l  the  very  nng. 
baders  of  this  intolerant  spirit.^     Are  they  not  those  wi.o  profess  the  a> 

^Sd'^llnhl^pleasant  land,  who  makeligM  of  the  gospel,  an.1  will 
uoraUend  to  the  preaching  of  if,  orif  they  give  it  a  hearing,  refuse  to 
comnlv  ^vith  it*  j  ,st  ancVreasonable  requisitions.  It  is  not  er.ough,  to  _bo 
w\uih;  the  visib  -ark;  so  was  a  cursed  Ham.  Eet  us  not  receive  .he 
grac    of  God   :  vain;  but  adorn  the  gospel,  by  a  gospei  spirit,  and  a  go^- 


'^T^^'^'h^  he  strictest  propriety,  be  ranked  among  Uiede- 
uise  svvh    c   a.  on  religion  into  their  service,  and  make  .1  the  trumpet 
se  m^rau^^  'n>.e  gospel,  is  ihe  gospel  of  peace      It  vvas 

tJod^'l  by  angels  with  GU.ru  to  God  in  m  '"g^  ^^f^^^ 
1  'II  tr.\»r,»  rii-Ut  ilic  author  01  it,  is  calieii  ine  rnutcot 
;::!;;«  ^IJ^V^^^  i^^  i^"owi;rs  how  maJ^-^Uien,. 
'must  hat  soul  bo,  witidi  would,  convert  itr into  an  engine  to  irritate, 
"  d,  nd  fla.:^^  the  passions  of  men,  to  strife,  blo<Hl,  -d  .  aughte^ 
\Vh 'n  the  sacred  desk,  is  converted  into  a  vehicle  of  scandal,  and  ca- 
lumnv  'mdar-s  predicated  on  misrcpresentali.m  and  the  niost  glar. 

^""?ilsdltuns   /;  a  prostitution,  V"^'^'?^ '''f^^n;tln:?"'l?t^ 
the  ministerial  character  into  thitt  oi  a  publie  informer.      It  i*. 


lag 
sinking 


12 

a  nielauclioly  consideFation,  that  such  occurrences  shoald  have  tnkea 

place,  as  to  force  from  the  speaker  such  observations;  but  when  the 

|)oUi)u  is  openly  and  widely  diiiused,  it  is  the  duty  of  every  g«(id  inuu 

to  administer  an  antidote,  to  counteract  the  eftects  of  it.    Such  <^nduct 

strikes  at  the  root,  and  is  subversive  of  a  free  govennn«^t,  andJias  a 

tendency  to  introduce  anarchy  and  confusion.     It  likuwide  flies  Tn  the 

fiUje  (»f  divine  authority,  and  subserves  the  cause  of  infidelity:  for  no 

truth  is  more  explicitly  revealed,  than  due  subordination  to  governuient. 

We  will  ouote  a  few   to   corroborate   our  as«ertion,     Exod.   22.   28'. 

Thou  shalt  not  revile  the  Gods, .  nor  curse  the  rulers  of  thy  people! 

AntlUoin.  13.  1,  2.  Let  every  soul  be  subject  unto  the   higher  powers. 

For  there  is  no  power  but  of  God:  the  powers  that  be  are  oi^aiued  oi' 

God.     Whosoever  resisteth  the  power,  resisteth  the  ordinance  of  God  j 

and  tliey  that  resist  shall  receive  to  themselves  damnation.    Jude  calls 

these  disorganizers,  v.  6.  Filthy  dreamers,  who  defile  t»\e  flesh,  despise 

domjaion,  and  speak  evil  of  dignitie^^.     Can  there  be  a  greater  prop  to 

lulidelity?  Did  Thomas  Paine,  with  all  his  frantic  raviugs  against  the 

christian  religion,  give  it  so  fatal  a  stab  as  these  pretended  advocates 

ot  it,  who,  in  direct  opposition  to  its  express  commands,  defame  and 

pour  a  torrent  of  abuse  upon  our  whorthy  President;  a  man  who,  when 

hrst  inducted  into  the  presidency,  was  represented,  by  these  bis  now  de- 

famers,  as  a  converted  man,  and  an  experimental  christian.    But  all  these 

puny  attempts  to  sink,  will  but  elevate  him  the  higher,  in  the  esteem  of 

every  genuine  American;  ^nd  with  dignified  composure,  and  silent  con. 

tempt,  he  hears  all  these  unfounded  accusations,  as  the  ebullitions  of  ic- 

uoranceorofa  maniac;  an<l  he  who  has  so  long  withstood  the  roarinf*  of 

bons,  has  nothing  to  fear  from  the  braying  of  an  ass.  "^ 

;  3.  Men  despise  our  political  privileges,  when  they  use  evcrv  strat- 
agem to  render  our  government  contemptible,  and  to  alienate  the  aftec- 
twus  of  ihcir  fellow  citizens  from  it.     This  is  to  imitate  Satan,  who 
would  ratlier  reij-n  in  hell,  than  be  surbordinate  iu  heaven.  N«ver  did 
human  Misdm  ilevUe  so   fair  a  fubrick   as  our   Federal  Gov erumeul 
Each  state  united  to  the  other,  like  the  several  meniberis  of  (he   human 
body,    co-operating  fur  the  good  of  the  whole;  so  (bat  one  cannot  say 
1  have  no  need  ofyuu.     All  are  bound  bv  solemn    eompacl,  to  a«Ii.ere 
10  each  other;  for  the  good  of  the  whole,  is   the  good    of  ea«li.      How  ' 
lualiviousl  hjw  cruel!  how  savage!  to  attempt  to  mutilate   so  fair  a  ia- 
baick,   and  to  loose  the  bond  of  union,  and  destroy  a  system,    which 
with  its  increasing  years,  hath  produced  increasing  j)rosperitv.    We  grunt 
that  our  apiiaient  prosperity,  has  partiuliy  been'inlerruptcil;  but  this  a- 
rose  uotiiom  any  detect  in  our  govern:uenl,  nor  iu   those  at  the  head 
Mi  It;  bnt  horn  the  exist i.ig  state   <.f  the  Europeiui  world,  which  for  u 
iew  ye  as  past,  has  been  in  an  uneomnjon  fernieuiution.     Nor  could  Sol- 
omou,   had  be   presided  over  us,  have  suar«led  nsajruii^st  <lif  (.ollisions 
o,  tne  belligerent  powers.    French  RmLilion,  and  liritisJi  cupidity,  havi- 
etimmjtled  spohtions  on  our  conmieiee  to  a  >ast  uniuunl.    litil  must  noi 
wery  imparii«l  per.^on  admit,  that,  to  promote  a  spirit  of  (jihcord  and 
ihsuuH.n  among  oui  selves,  is  not  the  vwiy  lo  redress,  but  the  sure  metli- 
til  to  laeue  them  tu  greater  aggresbioiis.     L.'i-  us  frov.  a,  im!lgnant^  ^t 


M 


Itl  liuve  takea 
but  when  the 
ery  g«^  inuii 
Sueh  ebndiict 
t;  and  Jhasi  a 
a  flies  in  the 
Sdelitv:  for  no 

0  govcinuient. 
Ixod.  22.  28. 
f  thy  people, 
igher  powers. 
e  ordained  of 
nance  of  God; 
II.    Jude  calls 

'.  iicsh,  despise 
[*ea(er  prop  to 
;s  against  the 
ded  advocates 
,  defame  and 
an  who,  when 
\e  his  now  de-> 
But  all  these 
the  esteem  of 
tid  silent  con? 
illitions  of  ig. 
he  roaring  of 

}  every  strat- 
late  the  aft'ec- 
s  Satan,  who 
a.  Never  did 
Goveriimeul. 
if  tlie  human 
e  cannot  say, 
icl,  to  a«titcrc 
ea«h.      How 

so  fair  a  fa- 
item,  ubich, 
y.  We  grant 
:ii;  but  ihiij  u- 

at  the  head 
,  which  for  u 

1  or  ewuld  Sol- 
<IiCcol!i«ionii 
ii|>idi(y,  have 
iiui  n»ustn(K 

(iihcord  and 
e  sure  metii- 
iniiignam^  ^t 


13 
every  attempt  to  disolve  our  federal  constitution,  however  sacred  may  H 
their  functions  let  us  regard  them  as  missionaries  of  hira  who  is  the 
father  of  lies,  and  a  murderer  from  the  beginning. 

When  men  counteract  the  means  which  the  wisdom  of  our  bxeeu- 
tive  devise  to  assert  our  rights,  redress  our  wrongs,  and  maintam  our 
national  dignity  ana  honour-M.r  even  when  they  be  cold  and  lukewarm 
iriromotinl  them.  They  come  wilhiu  the  charge  ?f  ««;«/•    S"^«^f; 
racteis  may  use  plausible  pleas,  to  extenuate  their  conduct--»uch  as  the 
temper  of  t'he  puLlic  mi..d,  the  persecutions  they  *,hall  ^^^  fpoted  to, 
and  the  losses  they  shall  sustain;  but  if  these  pleas  are  va  id  now,  they 
were  valid  during  our  revolutionary  war;  and  had  the  patriots  of  that 
day,   displaved  the  same  spirit,   we  should  be  groaning   now   in  E, 
^yplian  b.ndage.    Let  such  tremble;   let  them  arise  from  their  torpor, 
lest  they  subject  themselves  to  the  anathema  pronounced  a«iinst  some 
in  days  of  old.     See  Judges  5.  23.    Curse  ye  Meroz,  saiH  the  angel 
of  the  Lord;  curse  ye  bitterly  tb*   inhabitants  thereof,  because   they 
pame  not  to  the  help  of  the  Lord,  to  the  help  of  the  Lord  against   the 

""when  men  turn  liberty  into  lioentiousne^s,  and  take   shelter  undei? 
the  lenity  of  our  law,  to  degvade  and  abuse  themaj.-st^y  of  the  law;  this 
has  a  tendency  to  destroy  the  liberty  we  en.,.»y,  and  lay    Pjosti^ate  in 
ruin,  the  fair  edifice,  which  has  for  thirty  years  withstood  all  the  rudt 
shocks  to  which  it  has  been  exposed;  either  by  exciting  our  legislators 
to  lay  some  restrictions  on  the  press,  which  at  present  teems  with  so 
many  inflamitory,  virulent,  and  infamous  publications,  or  else  reducing 
us  to  a  state  of  anarchy.      Let  me,  on  this  occasion,  advise  you  my 
hearers,  to  adhere,  iiiUexibly  adhere,  to  the  principles  of  Republican, 
■    ism.    But  at  the  same  tinie,  bear  and  forbear,  with  the   insulU  vyhich 
your  principles  may  expose  you  to.      Uemtvmber,  our   constitution  is 
folded  on    he  right  of  private  judgment,  and  that    principles  cannot 
b!,de.trovedbythe  force  of  arms.    No;  let  reason  and  argument  be 
iL  only  weapons  whicli  you  will  use;  and  if  violence  be  heard  in  our 
land,  wuslini  and  destruction  within  our  bonkrs  let  them  not  ongmae 
f.om  those  who  call  themselvc-Hi:cpuldicans,  und  iriends  of  our  govern. 
meat:  but  from  those  who  assume  to  themselves,  the  exclusive  privilege 
of  bcina  the  friends  of  good  order.  ."      .       »,         ,        ,         *«.» 

i:sE  t.  Let  us,  to-dav,  lament  over  the  ruin  of  lapsed  nature,  itnd 
over  the  jarring,  discordant,  and  destructive  eifeets,  which  sm  has  in- 
troduced iu  all  our  national  calamities,  under  all  the  pressure  of  the 
times,  and  in  the  midst  of  personal  s.-fferings.  Let  ys  hear  the  an. 
swer  of  God  to  all  our  murmurings:  Thy  way,  and  thv  do,„.s,  have 
procured  these  things  ^^nto  thee:  Thi?  is  thy  wickeanes.  becuuse  it  is 
litter,  because  it  read.  Ji  unto  thy  heart.  Lei  us  h.unldo  ourselves 
under  the  mighty  hand  of  God,  a.^l  by  1^ th  in  tlie  Redeemer,  and  gen- 
nine  repentance,  disarm  a  frowning   God  of  that    venge.nce  which  we 

have  demerltcd  at  his  hinds.  ,  .      ,  i  «i^„  j  wUW 

2.  Let  us,  like  sonmny  I\Iosese«.  stand  in  the  ^ap.   and  plead  W  I 

Ood,  that  he  would  spare  us,  a  gailty  people,  «"V''^V     i  f  n'  /a« 
a  eoulliiuiia.c  of  Ihose  priwl:«v-s  forwhi^a  our  iutl.rsiongbt,  bled,  and 


h 


14 
lUed.  0,lct  iM  not  barter  them  away  lor  present  enjoympiils,  but  pa- 
tieiitly  submit  to,  and  bear  a  few  privations  whilst  the  present  contest 
contiiiiiea;  and  tljongh  nuich  ol'our  property  may  be  exhausted  in  tho 
struggle,  yet  it  is  better  to  leave  our  families  the  possession  of  our 
present  privileges,  without  the  posses^jon  of  a  cent,  than  to  leave  them 
millions  of  dollars,  with  the  entailment  of  slavery. 

3.  Let  those,  wha  openly  express  their  disaHection  to  our  govern- 
ment, pause,  and  reflect  upon  the  criminality  of  their  conduct;  for  God 
himself  bears  witness  against  those  sins  which  disturb  society.  In  these 
cases,  h&is  please«l  to  interest  himself  in  a  most  signal  manner,  to  cool 
those,  who  make  it  their  business  to  overturn  the  order  he  hath  estab- 
lished for  the  good  of  the  earth.  He  doth  not  so  often  in  this  wortd 
punish  those  faults  committed  immediately  against  his  own  honour,  as 
those  which  put  a  state  into  a  hurry,  anil  confusion.  It  is  observed, 
that  the  most  turbuJent,  sedifious  persons  in  a  state,  come  to  most  vio- 
lent ends:  As  Corah,  Adonijah,  Zinm,  Ahitophel  draws  Absalom's 
M word  against  I>avid  and  Israel,  and  the  next  he  twists  ahaiter  for 
himself.  Absalom  heads  a  party  against  his  father,  and  God,  by  a 
goodness  to  Israel,  hangs  him  up,  and' prevents  not  its  safety,  by  Da- 
vid's indulgence,  and  a  future  rebellion,  had  life  been  spared  by  the 
fondness  of  his  father.  His  providence  is  more  evident  in  discovering 
disturbers,  and  the  causes  whi«h  move  them,  and  in  digging  the  con- 
trivers out  of  their  caverns,  and  lurking  holes.  He  dolli  more  severely 
iu  this  world,  correct  those  actions,  vvhich  unlink  the  mutual  assist- 
ance between  man  and  man,  and  the  charitable  and  kind  correspon- 
dence he  wf     J  have  kept  up. 

i.  How  lost  to  gratitude,and  love  oi' country,  must  be  such  of  our  deluded^ 
citizens,  who  can  rejoice  in  the  disasters  of  those,  who  are  engaged  in 
warfare,  against  our  prouil,  insulting  foe;  and  are  ready  to  weep  at  any 
success  which  attends  our  arms.     Even  the  brute  beast  is  attached  to 
the  spot  which  afforvls  it  pasture;  but  they,  more  brutish,    would  tear 
lo  pieces   the  foliage  of  the  tree  which  screens  them  from  the  storm, 
and,  unlike  the  beast,  maliciously  invite  others  to  join  them  in  blasting 
our  fairest  prospects,  and  laying  all  in  wide  ruin  and   destruction!     Js 
ntft  this  too  evidently  the  wish  of  those  among  us,  wlw  make  use  of  ev- 
ery artifice,  and  twist  and  turn  all  the  patriotic  measures  of  our   Exe- 
cutive, as  being  under  the  eontroul  of  French  influence?  which  their  own 
conjiciencecannolsubscribe  to,  neither  do  they  themselves,  believe  so. 
But  the  evil  object  they  have  in  view,  they  studiously  conceal;  and  this 
outcry  against  French  influence,  is  raised  as  ami^it  to  blind  the   eyes 
of  the  public,  and  to  subserve  the  design  of  pulling  down  our    present 
^rulers,  and  to  raise  themselves  on   their  ruin.     Should   thty  succeed' 
id  their  nefarious  plan,  what  would  be   the   destructive  consequence? 
Why,  w^e  soon  should  see  these  very  same  people,  who  are  so   clamor- 
ous against  foreign  influence,  forming  an  alliance  with  Great-Britain, 
offensive  and  defen^ve,  which  would  involve  us  in  the  same  ruin  with 
herself.     Let  us,  for  the  truth  of  this,  appeal  to  stubborn  facts.     Who 
is  it  that  justify,  and,  if  they  cannot  justify,  palliate  all  the  insults  which 
^ve  have  for  ten  years  past  received  from  that  government?    If  they 


Is,  but  |jft- 
ierit  contest 
isted  in  tlio 
uon  of  our 
leave  them 

our  Kovern- 
ct;  for  God 
y.  In  these 
ler,  loeoul 
lath  estab- 
this  wopid 
honour,  as 
8  observed, 
D  most  vio- 
Absalom'^s 
halter  for 
God,  by  a 
ty,  by  Da- 
red by  the 
jiscovermg 
g  the  con- 
re  severely 
tiial  assist- 
correspon- 

>ur  deluded' 
sngaged  in 
^eep  at  any 
attached  to 
vouKl  tear 
I  the  storm, 
in  bhisting 
iictionl     Js 

use  of  ev- 
'oiir  Exe- 
i  their  own 
believe  so.. 
l1;  and  tliis 

the  eves 
ir  present 
y  succeed- 
^sequence? 
o  clamor- 
&t-Britain, 

ruin  with 
sts.  Who 
iuitswhicli 
'     If  they 


15 

\^iitrage  all  laws,  mural  and  divine,  by  impressing  thousands  of  our  gal 
lant  seamen;  and  if,  either  by  bribes,  or  cruel  vvhippings  and  flog:^in;^^, 
they  are  forced  to  enter  the  service,  their  advocates  extenuate    tbt-ir 
fonchiet,  by  observing,  that  it  is    impossible  for  them  to    discriminate 
betweert  our  people  and  their  own,  as  our  features  and  language  are  s«» 
similar.     With  such  reasons    an'J  arguments,   they  justify  the   cruel 
wrongs,  inflicted  on  our  unhappy  countrymen,  who  are  forced  to  join  ailtl 
assist  the  common  enemy,  in  their  murderous  work,  and  who   are   per- 
haps this  moment,  embruing  their  hands  in  the  blond   of  their  ii'^'arcst 
friends  and  dearest  relative.     These    predilections   for  a  government, 
which  is  sowing  among  us  the  seed  of  discofd,  sedition,  atid  treason, 
and  which  wishes  to  tear  from  ns    our  dearest   rif»hts,   demonstrate ^ 
where  the  bias  of  their  minds  tends  to.     Nor  can  a  word  be  nttered  iu 
their  hearing  against  the  British,  but  what  they  resent  more  than  they 
would  blasplR'nIy;  this  speaks  volumes,  and  evidently  points  to  us  Ihi* 
<»l»ject  which  they  have  iti  view.  But  let  them  tremble  for  their  condfK't. 
The  great  mass  of  nur  citizens,  have  too  long  tasted  the  sweets  of  lib- 
erty, to  exchange  it  for  the  gew-gaws  of  monirchyi     It  is  eiiough  for 
nsto  ivill  to  be  free,  and,  mangre  all  the   attempts   of  anarchists  and 
monarchists,  we  are  free.     And  let  them  not  suppose,  that  their   mis- 
deeds shall  go  nnpunished.     The  day  of  reckoningis  fast  approaching, 
when  the  strong  arm  of  law  and  justice,  will  overtake  them,  and  maki* 
them  sensible  that  even  in  a  republican  government,  their  is  energy 
enough  to  crush  the  guilty. 

5.  Let  not  the  exertions  of  the  religious  inhabitants  of  England,  in- 
fluence your  attachment  to  the  British  government,  as  if  the  large  do- 
nations contributed  for  the  support  of  Missionaries,  the  distribution  of 
Bibles,  and  other  religious  purposes,  were  the  acts  of  government. 
These  are  the  generous  eftbrts  of  its  subjects,  of  individuals,  groaning 
iinder  the  pressure  of  taxes.  And  how  mueh  more  would  these  indi- 
viduals contribute  toward  these  benevolent  purpo-^es,  were  the  demands 
of  government  not  so  numerous!  So  far  is  it  from  true,  that  the  Britisit 
government  is  friendly,  that  it  is  opposed  to  the  spread  of  the  gospel 
amongthemillions  in  Asia,  For,  within  eight  years  past,  the  government 
of  England  rejected  the  aj  j>/iation  of  the  Missionary  Society  to  send 
missionaries  to  India,  to  preach  the  gospel;  and  which  subjected  that 
society  to  the  evpense  of  sending  them  to  New-York,  from  whence  they 
embarked  to  the  place  of  their  destination.  To  conclude, 

Men  brethrm,  and  Fathers, 

Let  us,  to-day,  take  afresh  survey  of  our  National,  our  State,  and 
.«ur  personal  Blessings,  and  let  us  entertain  them  with  a  godly  jeal- 
ousy. Let  no  man  under  a  pretext  of  liberty,  cajole  us.out  of  our  priv- 
ileges. With  all  our  calamities,  we  are  comparatively,  a  happy  peo- 
ple. We  can  boast  of  what  no  other  people  can^  The  sovereignty  is 
in  our  own  hands.  We  are  not  bound,  as  in  France  and  England,  to 
crouch  like  beasts  of  burden  to  those  who  goad,  and  add  to  the  weight 
of  their  chains.  Our  rulers,  are  our  servants,  and  not  our  masters. 
ii  19   uy  uur    ircc   suura|^Sy    t-nrv  uuvc  ucni  cxcvaicu  lu  iuv:i(    cvativ.;^ 


16 

Citations;  and  if  th^y  •werve  from  the  priccipals  of  liberty,  we  can  den 
troy  their  official  dignity,  and  reduce  them  to  the  ranks  ol  private  citi- 
zens, without  having  recourse  to  acts  of  violence.  The  miseries  at- 
tending the  French  revolution,  must  be  yet  fresh  in  your  memories;  and 
we  hope,  and  pray,  that  no  aspiring  demagogues  may  be  permitted  to 
rise  up  among  us,  whereby  ♦he  proscriptions,  assassinations,  and  mur- 
ders, of  a  ferocious  Marat,  and  an  ensanguined  Robespierre,  may  po- 
lute  and  stain  our  hallowed  land  of  liberty  and  equality. 

Aiid  toil,  my  young  hearers,  read,  frequently  read,  the  histofy  of 
your  country.  Emulate  the  deeds  of  your  sires,  whose  patriotic  arms, 
put  to  flight  the  ruffian  hordes,  which  Britain  vomitad  on  our  shores. 
0,  prove  yourselves  to  be  the  decendants  of  those,  whose  names  will 
•hine  with  lustre  on  the  historic  page;  and  should  you,  like  them,  be 
called  to  avenge  your  country's  wrongs,  provi,  that  you  not  only  in- 
herit their  names,  bnt  likewise  their  courase;  that  you  will  not  detract 
from  their  glory,  but  maintain  with  your  blood,  undiminished,  the  fair 
inheritance  which  they  have  bequeathed  you.  And,0,  that  a  double 
portion  of  their  spirit  jnay  rest  on  you.        AMEN,  and  AMEN. 


■NaaMHWMMlibi 


\ 


y,  we  can  den 
»i*  private  citi- 

miseries  at- 
memories;  and 

permitted  to 
ons,  and  mur- 
ierre,  may  po- 


:1ie  histoty  of 
latriotie  arms, 
on  our  shores  i 
ge  names  will 
,  like  them,  be 
1  not  only  in- 
vill  not  detract 
oished,  the  fair 
),  that  a  double 
3  AMEN. 


Appendix^ 


^0  t\e  above  Jiseounes  %\ie  lubjotn  the  following  reviews,  which  hate  been  cold  • 
municatedi  in  the  frst  of  which  they  are  considered  merely  at  Viier^^y,  and 
in  the  tecond,'ai  political  productions  :  -to  which  xve  add  a  parallel,  exhibiting 
to  the  reader  not  only  the  pnve  ionrcf:  frovi  which  this  reverend  gentleman 
draws  the  instruction  witk  which  he  feeds  his  flock ;  but  the  honourable  manner 
in  which  he  does  it,  by  refusing  to  give  the  tribute  of  acknowledgment  U  whom 

'*""""""■"'"'•  EEVIEW  I. 

THE  present  is  an  age  of  /lamfihleta.    The   light  which  beami 
from  the  press,  in  lhes«  days  of  darkness  and  blood,  seems  lo  over- 
Whelm  us  with  "  One  tide  of  glory,  one  unbounded  blaze. '    Nor  is 
this  light  copious  only, — it  is  remarkably  intense.    The  human  mind, 
in  the  uninterrupted  enjoyment  of  peace,  becomes  inactive,  and  fancy 
cea-jes  to  spread  her   Mringsj  and  reposes  in  torpid   Rlumbers.     But) 
blow  the  blast  of  Warj  tod  £\n  is  life,  ardour  and  strength  :— the  pen 
of  ihe  erudite  is  pointed  for  the  combat,  and  the  lips  of  the  eloquent 
ere  open  to  persuade   ;-"{renios,  by  collision  with  geniUs,  is   dazzled 
with  its  own  scintillations,  and  reason  turns  with  astonishment  trom 
the  subject  she  is  pursuing,  to  admire  the  profundity  cf   her  own  re* 
searches.    The  press  is  the  vehicle  by  which  this  mental  lig.jt  w 
communicated  from  mind  to  mind  ;  and  in  the  present  age,  that  light 
appears  not  only  with  a'l  the  intensity  of  the  solar  rays,  when  con- 
densed by  the  lens,  but  with  all  their  variety  of  colour,  when  refract- 
ed by  the  prismatic  i,'lass,  or  by  the  rain  drops  of  the  east.     1  bus  we 
find  in  the  newspapers  and  pamphlets  of  the  present  moment,  relig- 
ious  light,  moral  light,  political  light  and  various  degrees  olscientihc 

^^Ina  pamphlet  now  before  us,  entitled  «  Two  discourses  delivered  to 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Society  in  Newburyport,  Aug.  20,  1812,  the 
day  recommended  by  the  President  of  the  United  States  for  national 
humiliation  a.id  prayer  j^-by  the  Rev.  John  Giles"— we  are  pleased 
to  see  not  only  the  several  kinds  of  light  which*  we    have  mentioned, 
of  a//  which,  we  presume,  there  is  quantum  aufficity  but  also  a  very 
animating  gleam  of  rhetorical,  and   a  particularly   splendid  blaze  ot 
grammatical  light.     In  the  observations  we   shall   make  upon   these 
discourses,oUrobjectwUl  be  principally,  to  illustrate  these  unmual 
traits  m  productions  of  this  kind,  by  holding  up,  to   the  attention   ot 
the  reader,  passages  in  which  they  are  more  particularly  conspicuous, 
-and  that  not  in  the  order  of  their  relative  merit,  but  in  that  ot  their 
succession  in  the  book.    These  beauties  meet  us  on   tne  very  thresh- 
hold  :— in  the  second  sentence,  the  writer,  speakmg  ot  the  Israelites  ^ 
and  the  Land  of  promise-saj  s  ;-«  but  the  spies  brought.an  ill  re- 
«  port  of  it,  though  they  owned  it  was  a  land  which  flowed  with  miilk 
«  and  honey  ;  but  there  were  tuch  difficulties  to  possess  it  whtch  they 
thought  insuperable.^* — &c.— 

p.  4.  "  To  render  a  land  pleasant  its  inhaWtants  must  enjoy  equal  rights  and 
••  privileges,  otherwise  it  can  be  pleasant  only  to  a  favored  fev/,  while  th« 
« •  ffpeat  majority  are  rendered  only  objects  of  miiery,  through  penury  and  dia- 
••  tpess  ;  and  thus  the  comforts  and  blessings  f)f  civilized  "O^iety.  Ae  abused, 
"  subvened  ana  even  prosutuicu  w  luc  iitw»»  i^tiuwM  9.i.-»  — -^ r— r 


ac-....    ■,,.;f-~i1Tr-ir«>ni 


.  / 


i 

I: 


18 

Till  now  we  did  novktiow  that  such  and  which  were  correspondent 
or  correlative  terms  as  used  in  tlie  former  ol'  these  passages. — And 
wc  were  at  a  loss  la  determine  how  "  be  abused'*  was  governed  either 
in  the  infinitive  or  subjunctive  moodi  till  in  the  next  sentence  the 
clue  is  ^iven  by  ihe  luminous  proposition  thai  ^^  gcvernment  in  its  best 
state  is  but  a  neccssary^evil."  Here  no  one  can  but  observe  what  a 
flood  of  lij!;ht  burst-sat  once  upon  us.— The  reverend  republican,  since 
leaving  England  has  contracted  such  an  antipathy  to  government,  of 
every  description,  that,  not  satisfied  with  emancipating  man  he  gener- 
ously undertakes  to  disentltial  even  his  language  from  these  odious 
restraints  of  t^overiiment, 

Ag-a:n  p^  5,  "  Let  us  rejoice  that  we  are  in  the  full  possession  and  free  ex- 
"  ercise  of  the  privilei.'e  of  selecting  from  ourselves,  men,  to  be  our  rulers  ;  s»nd 
••  'while  we  give  them  a  comptnsatlon  for  the  services  which  they  render  the 
"  public  ill  their  several  statiniiK,  which  is  but  just  and  reasonaJble  ;  for  the 
••  labourer  is  worthy  of  hit  hlrr." 

Now  some,  who  do  not**"*?  thingt,  would  suppose  there  was  here  a 
kind  of  hiatus^  as  the  hearer  must  be  expecting  to  be  told  something 
proper  to  be  done,  ivhilci  &c.  but  here  the  delicate  hand  of  the  master 
is  t>ecn,  in  sufl'ering  the  imagination  of  the  hearer  to  have  a  little 
playi  and  fall,  by  its  own  etfarts,  upon  the  rest  of  the  sentence. 

|!Bui  to  proceed  ;  page  10,  "The  parent,  vi'iih  pallid  cheeks,  hollow  eye» 
'  .and  trembling  Uinb&,  arrest  not  our  steps  with  importunate  cries  for  relief  to 
••  their  helpless  infant'  &c.—Ag»in  "  The  Uruelites  forgot  Coci  their  cTaTJOHr, 
*•  %\>hich  had  "  done  great  things  in  Egypt." 

In  old  times,  when  Addison^  Johnson  and  Dlair,  were  at  the  gram- 
mar school,  they  contracted  a  habit  of  making  a  verb  agree  with  its 
nominaiive  cz%e^  in  number  and  person,  .and  of  making  the  relative 
luho  refer  to  persons,  nvhich  to  things  :  and  this  habit  was  so  fixed 
upon  tlitm  that  they  carried  it  with  them  to  the  last.  Even  Pope  felt 
himself  coristrained,  by  the  same  illiberal  rule,  when  addressing  the 
same  Infinite  Bemg  of  whom  the  sacred  politician  is  here  speaking, 
to  say 

"  Thou  Great  First  Cause,  least  understood, 
**  Who  all  my  sense"  8tc, 

But  in  these  days  of  superior  light  and  liberty,  all  ideas  ol  concord  In 
a  sentence  appear  as  useless  and  absurd  as  do  those  of  government. 
We  presume  that  when  this  learned  gentleman  was  in  England,  a//a# 
"  ^aVo»»"  (vide  p.  9,)  the  Babylonians,  being  tired  of  these  old 
fashioned  rules,  were  beginning  to  get  things  up  in  a  little  better  style  ; 
and  being  conversant  WKh  the  heads  of  department,  or  peihaps,  more 
properly  with  tht  defiariment  of  heads,  he  Was  the  first  to  receive  from 
authors  and  orators  of  flie  first  grade,  those  emanations  of  light  which 
he  here  sheds  abroad  from  himself,  as  from  the  radiant  point.  Not 
being  ufi  to  these  splendid  novelties  ourselves,  we  can  but  admire  in 
him,  the  ease  with  which  he  declares  that  "  xhe  parent  arrest  not  our 
"  steps"  respecting  "  their  helpless  infants,"  and  the  dignity  with 
which  he  invests  the  Divinity  when  he  makes  the  Israelites  forget 
God  their  Saviour  ivhick  had  done  great  things"— 

The  spKciraens  heretofore  exhibited  go,  principally,  to  illustrate  the 
beauiijul :  but  our  author  occasionally  soars'  to  the  sublime.  The  ve- 
ry page  from  which  the  two  last  examples  were  taken  furnishes  ui 


■  -.*.»lU»a»...>l.'  I,,,,^^,||l,g,,)jgj^^,|,,j,||,,,^^j^yg|^^ 


\ 


'e  correspondent 
I  passages. — And 
J  governed  either 
;xt  sentence  the 
rnment  in  its  best 
:  observe  what  a 
republican,  since 

>  government,  of 
ig  man  he  gener- 
m   these  odious 

ession  and  free  ex- 

>  be  our  rulers:  s>nd 
ch  they  render  the 
:asonai)Ie  ;  for  the 

here  was  here  a 
>e  lold  something 
nd  of  the  master 
to  have  a  little 
sentence. 

leeks,  hollow  eye» 
t  cries  for  relief  to 
God  their  Saviour, 

re  at  the  gram- 
■f>  agree  with  its 
ng  the  relative 
bit  was  so  fixed 
Even  Pope  felt 
1  addressing  the 
I  here  speaking. 


leas  of  concord  in 
of  government, 
in  England,  alia* 
id  of  these  old 
ttle  better  style  ; 
tr  perhaps,  more 
to  receive  from 
IS  of  light  which 
iant  point.  Not 
n  but  admire  in 
It  arrest  not  our 
le  dignity  with 
[sraeliies  forget 

to  illustrate  the 
')litne.  The  ve- 
len  furnishes  ui 


i9  .  t 

with  an  instance.    «<  But  the  .f«.v  of  dai'y  ^avors    soonest   rjrar  on 
^of  our  minds,  which  are  as  great  miracles,  aa  a..y  in  ihtir  own  na- 
i.  turc,  and  the  products  of  the  same  power  "-Here,  .f  our  auihor 
dots  not  shed  his  usual  light,  it  is,  we  presume,  not  without  design. 
Sublimity  is  so  great  an  excellence  in  style,  thut  it  is  cheaply  pun  iras- 
ed  at  the  expense  of  every  other.     We  mubt  not  expect,  partuular- 
fv  to  have  a  clear  and  defti.ite  view  of  tl.c  ohj.ct,  nor   a  full  conccp- 
ion  of  the  sentiment  Ihakfilh  our   minds   ^vilh  sublime   emotions. 
We  must  not  therefore  inquire  whether  "  the  sense  of  daily   tavois 
.-the  ^i  favours"  themselves  or  "  our  mimh"  ore  the  "  miracles  ;  — 
for  the  moment  we  determine,  that  moment  the  sublimity  vanishes. 
We  could  not  possibly  suppose  that  sensr  could  be  the   vnraclts,  be- 
cause «  sense"  is  singular  and  «  miracles"  rlurul,-«ere  it  not  that 
bv  the  magic  power  of"  Liberty  and  equality"  introduced  on  tlie  ast 
nace  of  the  book,  our  wtiter  has  made,  the  sh.gular  «  sense    equal  to 
the  nlural  "  wear"  by  making  them  agree  as  nominative  and  vcrl.,--- 
of  course  we  do  not  know  how  tar  he  may  think  proper  to  advunc--  .t 
in  dienity  :  nor  do  we  sec  any   objection,  *upon  principle,  'o  its  be- 
coming not  only  a  miracle,  but  many  »  miracles."     Beiwcen   '•  fa- 
vours"  and  «  minds,"  we  think  the  chance  is   nearly  equal  ;  tor  as 
mush  as  is  gained  by  "  favours"  in  relation  to  the  antecedent  scnten- 
Tes,  so  much  is  gained  by  "  minds,"  from  Us  uroximity  to  the  relative. 
This  we  think  is  a  briUiani  instance  of  the  "  f  oid  obscure  —  a  bnght 
display  of  "  palpable  darkness." 

We  pass  over  the  eloqwentand  gentlemanlike  compliments   whxh 
on  naees  II  and  12  he  lavishes  upon  his  fdlow- labourers  m  the  vne- 
vard  of  the  Lord.     But  while  we  admire  the  generous  fiow  of  civniiy 
and  respect  which  must  be  so  gratifying  to  his  brethren,  the  clergy, 
we  must  not  lose  sight  of  that  meek  and    modest  spirit  of  clnis- 
tian  charity  which  breathes   in  every   sentence,  and  animates  the 
xvhole  current  of  his  remarks  upon  them.     Our  attention  however  ia 
arrested  by  the  closing  sentence  of  this   clerical   eu  ogy,  which  runs 
thus—"  Let  us  frown  indignant  at  every  attemfit  to  dissolve  our    ted- 
«  eral  constitution,  however  sacred  may  be  rA«r  functions  ;  let    us 
"  recard  them  as  missionaries  of  him  who  is  the  father  of  lies  and  a 
.c  murderer  from  the  beginning."...Let  those  who  can,  pass  tlmsen- 
tence  without  admiration,-as  well  as  thaone  next  following.    "When 
men  counteract  the  means  which  the  nvisdom  of  our  Executive  dernse 
to  assert  our  vights"-&c...-The8e  two  sentences,  must,  we  presume, 
be  politically  correct,  and  theologically  orthodox,-for  he  who  is  ab  e  to 
Scate  "their  functions"  of  "every  attempf'-and  then  conwr^  «.r- 
VrTauTrntt-  into  «  missionaries*'      d  to  make  "  wisdom"  harmomze 
with  "devise"  must  surely  be  able  lO  make  the  rough  things  of  divmity 
smooth,  and  the  crooked  things  of  policy  straight. 

Igain,  p.  U.    "  Ahitophel  draws  Absalom's  f -''^ .^.^'"^L^^'^t 
'  and  Israel,  and  the  next  he  twists  an  halter   for  l^^«^self-  -"J^^  "«^', 
what  ?  Here  again  he  compliments  the  reader  by  suffermg  the  deh- 
ciency  to  be  supplied  ad  libitum  by  his  own  imaRmation. 

If  le  may  be  indulged  yet  a  little  longer,  we  will  encleavovir  to  con- 
fine.our  spe'cimens  ^vithin  as  nariw  limits  as  we  can,  in  ^.tice  to^he 

tr;;^^^^^^^^^  ;;me;^(p.  i50v.hich  ao.. 


.:* 


20 

•*  in  manner  and  form  following,  to  wit,"  "  Thete  firedilectiom  for  « 
<*  government,  which  is  sowing  amoni;  us  the  seed  of  discord,  sedition 
"  and  treason,  and  which  wishes  to  tear  from  us  our  dearest  rights, 
*'  demovstratea  where  the  bia»  of  their  mindt  tends  to**  Here  agnin  is 
dit^playcd  that  republican  hatred  of  government,  which  seduces  from 
its  nominative  the  allegiance  of  the  verb. — If  however  the  eye  is  wea- 
ry with  too  long  contemplating  these  polished  samples  of  grammat- 
ical elegance,  each  of  wliich"might  be  connidertd  as  unique,  the  far 
will  undoubtedly  be  ravislied  with  the  rhetorical  harpiony,  and  tUo 
force  of  nnmbevs  with  which  this  sentence  closes. 

There  are  many  minor  beauties  to  which  we  cannot  descend,wlthout 
occupying  more  space  than  can  be  devoted  to  lucubrations  of  this  na- 
ture :  the  reader  cannot  but  observe  them,  on  even  a  hasty  perusal— 
they  al!  go,  like  tliose  who  liave  brought  into  notice,  to  shew  a  gen-, 
ius  improved  by  science,  a  taste  formed  upon  the  most  approved  mod- 
els, a  style  chastened  and  elevated,  and  a  fancy  whose  vagaries  have 
been  restrained  by  the  cool  dictates  of  reason.  Both  the  religious 
and  political  sentiments  we  intended  to  pass  over,  they  are  above  our 
humble  reach,  and  must  be  left  to  those  who  are  better  capable  of 
judging  of  such  "  high  matters."  If  the  matter  however  be  equal 
to  the  nmwwfr,  too  much  cannot  be  said  of  it. 

There  are  yet  three  tlyngs  which  we  cannot  in  justice  to  the  rever- 
end gentleman,  neglect  to  notice.  These  are  his  consiatencyy  his 
modcaixj  and  the  love  he  displays  towards  his  native  country. 

First,  hhconsistep.cy:  Our  readers  must  undoubtedly  recollect  that 
His  Excellency  Caleb  Sthqjig,  who  has  been  raised  to  the  dignity  of 
rtiling  the  free,  sovet  tign  and  independent  fieofile  of  Massachusetts,  in 
hislateproclaraation  fora  State  Fast,  speaks  of  Great-Britain,amongoth- 
er  things,  as  the  bulwark  of  the  religion  we  profess.  Our  lepubncan 
divine,  (may  we  not  say  our  divine  refiublicah)  on  page  7,  speaking 
alSo  of  England,  closes  his  notice  of  that  nation,  with  these  words — 
"  Must  it  not  be  c/i//<//«/t/,  nay,  the  very  essence  of  hypocrisy^  in  any 
*'  man,  to  call  such  a  kingdom  the  bulwark  of  our  religion" — and 
then  goes  on  (page  12,)  to  prove  from  scripture  that  they  who  "  speak 
evil  ot  di^nitieny  and  curse  the  rulers  of  the  people^  stand  at  least  ft 
chance  pf  "  receiving  to  themselves  damnation." 

Of  his  modesty  we  have  room  to  say  but  little  ;  nothing,  indeed 
compared  with  the  subject.  It  shall  however  be  illustrated  in  a  de- 
gree, and  faintly  shadowed  forth,  by  first  recalling  to  the  minds  of  our 
readers  the  recollection  of  the  fact,  that  during  our  revolutionary  strug-. 
gle,  he  was  a  native  inhabitant  of  the  country  that  strove  to  strangle 
America  in  her  cradle,  and  a  subject  of  the  *'  government  with  which 
it  is  evident  the  Lord  has  a  controversy  ;" — and  then,  while  this  re-, 
collection  is  fresh  in  the  mind,  presenting  them  one  passage  from 
page  8.—  '        ■        . 

"  In  our  infancy  we  hnmbled  their  pride,  and  chained  to  the  chariot  wheels 
"  of  our  triunrjph,  twooi  their  most  celebrated  generals  ;  one  of  tuA/cA,  (Vtf»- 
"  erals  vihich  again)  "  boasted  on  the  floor  of  Parliament  that  with  3000  men 
•'  he  would  marcli  in  triumph  from  one  end  of  our  Continent  to  the  other. 
•*  Part  of  this  assertion  seemed  to  be  prophetic,  for  he  passed  through  a  sec- 
*•■  lion  of  our  Coiuineiil,  not  as  a  conqueror,  but  as  a  crest-fallen  prisoner.  If 
••  we  atchieved  such  exploits  in  oMr  infant  state,  what  shall  ^«  not,  tbrougl^ 
"  provi  Jsiice,  be  able  to  do  in  our  ntanhood.'* 


\ 


iredilectiom  for  « 
discord,  sedition 
r  dearest  rights, 
Here  iiRfiin  ia 
;h  seduces  from 
r  the  eye  h  wea- 
les  of  granimat- 
unique,  the  ear 
r^iony,  and  tliO 

descend,without 
'at ions  of  this  na- 
hasty  perusal-— 
to  shtw  a  gen-. 
5t  approved  mod- 
;:  vagaries  have 
Lh  the  religious 
ley  are  above  our 
)etter  capable  of 
»vever  be  equal 

tice  to  the  rever- 
consiatencyf   his 
:ountry. 

l\y  recollect  that 
1  to  the  dignity  of 
liassachusetts,  in 
ritain,amongoth- 
Our  rtpubiican 
)age  7,  speaking 
li  these  ■words— 
hypocrisy^  in  any 
r  religion" — and 
they  who"  speak 
I  stand  at  least  a 

nothing,  indeed 
ustrated  in  a  de- 

the  minds  of  our 
^olutionary  strug-. 
rove  to  strangle 
iment  with  which 
,  while  this  re-, 
e    passage  from 

the  chariot  wheels 
ie  of  fahich,  Cge/t' 
lat  with  3000  men 
ent  to  the  other, 
icd  through  a  8ec> 
raileii  prisonef.  If 
I  f)r  not,  through 


ft 

Reader,  dost  thou  recollect  the  story  of"  we  afi/ile$  "f  If  thou  dost, 
the  modesty  of  thi«»  passage,  which  is  but  a  small  portion  of  what  is 
exhibited  in  the  whole,  cannot  be  illustrated  by  more  appropriate 
types  and  fipures. 

But  we  cannot  lake  leave  of  this  very  accomplished  author,  without 
advening  to  the  deep  and  feeling  sense,  he  seems  to  entertain,  of  the 
obligations  he  owes  to  his  native  country:  that  holy  devotion    to   the 
land  that  gave  him  birth,  and  infused  into  his  mind,  by  the  iiberal  edu- 
cation it  afforded  him,  those  exalted  sentiments,  those   generous   re- 
collections which  a;  e   poy red  forth  through  his   whole   book— That 
profound  veneration  for  the  religious  establishments,  that   aidtnt  en-  ^ 
thusiasm  towards  the  laws,  and  that  respectful  aiid   ^fft  clionate  zeal 
for  the  chief  magistrate  of  England,  which  form  the  ^l/i/ia  and  Omrga 
of  his  discourses  cannot  but  convince  every  reader  that  he  who  is  thui 
filial  in  his  attachments  to  his  mother  country,    must  he  unshaken  in 
the  grand  purpose  of  ennobling  and  exalting  the  Qharactet   of  that 
which  has  flrfo/jrfrf  him.  * 

We  cannot,  perhaps,  close  this  article  better  than  with  the  followr 
ing  lines  from  Churchilly-a.  man  who  once  dressed  in  the  gown  ^nd  sur- 
plice ;  which  however  he  left  off,  after  disgracing  them  and  the  holy 
profession  to  which  they  were  dedicated,  by  the  most  wanton  piacti-? 
ces  of  debauchery  and  intemperance  ;  but  who  at  times  felt  and  ex- 
pressed in  his  writings,  sentiments  worthy  at  least  of  a  layman,  tho* 
they  may  not  be  fully  equal,  in  point  of  patriotism  and-  elegance,  Iq 
vhat  now  flow  from  those  among  us  who  minister  in  holy  things. 

♦• Be  Enfjland  what  she  will, 

■    W  Uh  all  her  faults,  she  is  my  coun/ry  still.— 
The  love  we  bear  our  Country  is  a  root 
Which  never  fails  to  bring  forth  golden  fruit » 
.  *Ti8  in  the  mind  an  everlasting  spring 
Of  glorious  actions,  which  become  a  king. 
Nor  leas  become  a  subject  ;  'tis  a  debt, 
Which  BAD  MEN  tho'  ihey  pay  not,  can't  forget  j 
A  duty  which  the  good  delight  to  pay, 
And  every  man  can  practice  every  day. — ~ 
That  spring  of  love  which,  in  the  human  mind 
Founded  on  self,  flows  narrow  aud  con^n'd. 
Enlarges  as  it  rolls,  and  comprehends  t 

,The  social  charities  of  blood  and  friends, 
Till,  smaller  streams  included,  not  o'erpast. 
It  rises  to  our  country's  love  at  last, 
And  he,  with  lib'ral  and  enlarged  mind. 
Who  lovet  hit  country,  cannot  hate  mankind.—— 
Howe'er  our  pride  may  tempt  us  to  conceal 
Those  passions  which  we  cannot  chuse  but  feel, 
t  There's  a  strange,  something,  which  without  «  brainy 

Fools  feel,  and  which  e'en  wise  men  can't  explain. 
Planted  in  man,  to  bind  him  to  tha>.  earth. 
In  dearest  ties,  from  whence  he  drew  bis  birth. 
II  Honour  calls,  where'er  she  points  the  way 
The  sons  of  Honour  fellow  and  obey ; 
If  need  compels,  wherever  we  are  sent 
*Ti8  want  of  courage  not  to  be  content  ,• 
But  if  we  have  the  liberty  of  choice. 
And  all  depends  on  our  own  single  voice. 
To  deem  of  ev'ry  country  as  the  same^  ■     •     .'* 

Isrsnk  rebellion  <ga!nst the  lawful clain^ 
pf  Nature  ;  and  such  dull  indifference 
iil»y\>ephilotophy,\iUieaH'tbc  tens^ 


REVIEW  IL 

«•  IV/uit  manner  o*  thing  it  your  Crocodile  ?^ 

THE  press  has  lately  teemed  yf\\b  a  brace  of  Sermoni  from  the 
pen  of  the  Rev.  John  Giles.  These  performances  are  somewhut 
curious,  but  they  might  go  clown  to  oblivion  quietly,  did  wc  not  tliuik 
them  a  fair  specimen  of  democratic  reasoning  and  declamation  i 
which  is  a  tissue  of  contradictions,  absurdities,  vituperations  and  nou- 
gense. — In  a  short  review  of  these  productions,  the  writer  will  not 
stop  to  notice  the  bad  grammar  with  which  this  work  abounds,  nor 
point  out  the  fals^  logic  conspicuous  in  every  page  ;  for  whoever  views 
these  twin  bom  gracea  of  democracy^  will  see  that  the  Rev.  John  Giles 
is  as  much  unacquainted  with  Iain  and  Cam^  as  he  is  with  the  con- 
stitution of  his  native  country,  and  abuses  the  King's  English  as  free- 
ly as  he  does  the  Court  of  St.  James,  or  the  Prince  Regent. 

The  text  for  these  Sermons  is  a  pointed  and  biting  sarcasm  on  the 
fltiff-neckcd  and  rebellious  Israelites — "  Yea  they  dcafiiaed  the  filcasant 
land" — and  this,  by  a  side-way  allusion  is  meant  for  those  who  are  not 
idolaters  to  his  Digon  of  power. — From  a  perusal  of  this  scanty,  and 
distorted  picture  of  national  happiness,  we  do  not  hesitate  to  say,  that 
Uie  writer  is  infested  with  the  political  poison  drawn  from  thesewersof 
Godwin  and  Paine.  There  is  a  peculiar  drivelling  in  the  pupils  of 
thisSchool,'by  which  we  always  know  them  ;  for  they  struggle  to 
f;ain  at^eniian  by  bold  assertions,— coarse,  and  vulgar  epithets  ;  and 
by  quaintness  and  eccentricity  strive  to  make  popular  flimsy  reasou- 
iuft,  and  false  sentiments,  which  are  subversive  !  f^l'  order  and  gov- 
ernment.  "  Government  like  dress,  is  the  badf^e  nf  los'  innocenc  m,*' 

says  Parson  Giles,  (and  I  believe  Parson  Pain'  *   a,  fl  v   >cfore  him.) 
This  is  dazzling  and  fine,  hut  it  is  neither.witty  nor  illustrative. 

Let  us  pursue  this  thought,  for  a  moment,  for  whether  the  preach- 
er b<igot  it  or  purloined  it,  is  all  the  same.  If  "  Government,  like 
dreps.  is  the  badge  of  lost  innocence"— the  savage,  who  wears  but  a 
rag  »:  •  ,r  'r  his  nal^dness,  is  nearer  primitive  purity  than  President 
MarVa  v;  dreR^iJ  for  his  levee  ;  and  the  gentleman  himself  is  more  a 
sairt'  ?n  ins  every  day  diess,  than  when  a<lorned  with  his  flowing  ca- 
jionic?l3.— The  natioi^  of  Europe  pass  in  'eview  before  the  preacher> 
and  all  are  filled  with  the  abominations  of  government ;  and  even  the 
shades  of  departed  Greece  and  Rome  are  called  up,  that  he  might 
«'  lay  them"  with  a  curoe. — But  England,  poor  old  England,  bears 
the  burden  of  its  blows,  here  he  collects  his  manly  wrath  and  raves 
most-  heroically  against  Kings  and  courtly  trains.  Had  the  good 
tnan  been  made  a  Bishop  in  his  native  land,  never,  oh  !  never,  should 
we  have  heard  this  elegant  invective  j  it  would  have  been  lost,  we 

*  We  ohferved  in  reading  this  Vfori  that  almqfi  every  page  is  dif grated  hy 
flagiarifms.-Very  copiousex  traSs  are  made  from  the  books  of  Tom  Painet  with- 
out any  acknoauledgment— probably  a  flight  fenfe  of  Jbame  isflillleft.—Tbe 
bearers  of  ibis  mintfler  are  highly  favored  ebrisitans  i  ivho  kaveuUihe  hene- 
p  of  the  Age  ofReafon^  Rights  of  Man,  andotktr  nuorh  ofthit  infidel  Paine, 
from  the  pulfit. 


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oni  from  the 
ire  somewhut 
d  we  not  think 
declumation  i 
itions  and  nou- 
riter  will  not 
abounds,  nor 
wlioever  views 
ev.  John  Gile» 
with  the  con- 
In  glish  as  frce- 
gent. 

^rcasm  on  the 
led  the  filfasant 
>se  who  arc  not 
lis  scanty,  and 
ate  to  s»y,  tliat 
m  thesfwersof 
1  the  pupils  of 
y   struggle   to 
epithets  ;   and 
'  Himsy  reasou« 
order  and  gov- 
08'  innocenc;,*' 
I'   jcfore  him.) 
ustrative. 
ler  the  preach- 
avernmcnt,  like 
o   wears  but  a 
than  President 
mself  is  more  a 
his  flowing  ca- 
re the  preacher* 
; ;  and  even  the 
that  he  might 
England,  bears 
rath  and  raves 
Had  the   good 
!  never)  should 
been  lost,  we 

j;e  is  difgraeed  by 
Tom  Painet  with- 
isftill  {eft. -The 
have a'ii ihe  bene' 
tkh  infidel  P«in*t 


S3 

fear  in  Hie  soft  accents  of  his  loyalty  to  his  gracious  ma  (iter.— Ther<i 
are  sufferings  in  all  countries,  and  no  doubt  niauy  in  liDgUnd,  but 
the  difference  between  tl»i»  country  and  tliat  Is  not  so  great  as  he  rc- 
pi-csen'i  it,  and  if  this  War  continues  it  will  lie  worse  here  tliaii  in  G. 
Britain.— Is  the  Gentleman  ignorant  ?  this  I  cannot  believe— or  did 
he  inteud  to  mislead,  wlien  he  slated  without  any  cxplajiiition,  thut  the 
Kin^i  of  England  receives  a  million  a  year  for  his  s»iary  from  the 
people  ?— Why  did  he  not  tell  them,  that  from  this  sum  the  whole 
civil  list  were  paid,  and  that  but  a  small  proportion  of  it  is  retaiutd 
for  his  own  private  use  ?  this  would  have  bctn  true,  but  liuih  seem* 
not  to  have  been  his  object. 

Wliat  Parson  Giles  has  suffered  in  his  native  country,  that  should 
make  him  turse  his  mother  so  bitterly,  is  not  known  wiih  us  ;  but 
surely  he  must  have  snifferec' some  tenibla  oppression,  to  justify 
in  any  measure,  this  infuriated  resentment.— If  common  report  is 
not  a  liar  he  has,  in  former  times'  praised  his  own  country,  and 
spoken  with  contumely  and  reproach  of  the  common  rabble  of  these 
United  Slates,  and   despised  the  dear  people  he  now  so  ardently 

loves. 

When  a  writer  animadverts  with  manliness,  if  he  is  severe,  no  one 
has  a  right  to  complain  ;  but  when  malignity  calls   falsehood  and  ri6- 
aldry  to  her  assistance,  we  have  an  unquestionable  privilege  to  despise 
and  condemn.— His  attack  on  the  Prince  Regent,  is  mean  and  lalse. 
("  The  Prince  Regent  has  by  his  intemperance  and  debaucheries,  re- 
duced himself  to  tUe  state  of  an  Idiot.")    That  the  Regent  has  been 
a  guy  man,  is  not  to  be  disputed -but,  for  years  past,  he  has  attended 
to  national  affairs  with  promptness  and   solicitude,  and  has  secured 
the  affections  of  his  subjects.    Such    pitiful  slander,  such  absolute 
falsehood,  such  miserable   abuse,  comes  most  ungi'aciously  from  a 
preacher  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ.— All  this  could  be  forgiven,  but  his 
covert  and  indirect  attack  on  a  man — "  in  whom  there  is  no  guile,'* 
a  man  whose  memory  will  be  fresh,  among  the  virtuous,  when  the 
parson,  and  his  sermons  are  forgotten,  cannot  and  \v ill  not  be  forgiv- 
en.    It  is  the  ait«mpt,  not  his  success,  that  we  mention,  for  the  -figis 
of  Minerva  would  sooner  have  been  shattered  from  the  puny  strength 
of  an  infant  arm,   than  the   shaft   from  the  parson's  bow,— however 
deeply  dipped  in  gall,— have  reached  one  »'  armed  so  Strong  in  lion- 
esty." 

The  second  Sermon  commences  as  follows,— 

"The  fpeaker,»n  the  forenoon,  called  your  attention,  to  the  diftinguiflihn| 
goodnefs  of  God,  which  has  exempted  U9  as  a  people,  from  the  burdens, 
oppreffions,  and  calamities,  under  which  the  nations  of  Europe  groan,  and 
which  wring  from  the  infcabitants,  the  moft  piercing  cries.  Our  Uaea  are 
fallen  in  pleafant  places;  yea,  we  have  a  goodly  heritage  :  but  feme  among 
U8,  like  Jeftjurun  of  old,  haVe  waxed  fat  and  are  kicking  againa  ihe  rock  of 
falvation.    This  leads  us,  ** Second... To  exhibit  the  characters  Who 

DESPISE  THE  PLEASANT  I^AND. 

*«  We  charge  no  party,  folely,  as  implicated  in  this  crime ;  but  (hall  at- 
tempt to  demonftrate  that  there  are  fuch  men  among  us.  And  we  will,  at 
we  proceed  in  our  defcription,  adhere  to  the  criterion  laid  down  by  our 
Saviour— you  (hall  know  them  by  their  fruity  

«•  I.  Men  may  be  faid  to  defpiie  it,  when  they  make  iigljii  Qi  their  privir 
oges,  either  in  a  natural,  moial,  or  political  view." 


t^ 


I 


24 

The  preacher  is  here  extremely  confused,  at  which  we  ire  i\6i  H 
little  surprised,  for  nothing  is  more  simple  and  easy  than   the  lines 
between  natural,  moral,  and  political  privileges.— Under  the  cUvision 
Of  natural,  he  has  Riven  us  moral,  religinils  and  political  advantages, 
and  drawn  a  picture    of  national  prosperity,— ercn  such  an  one,  as 
meagre  as  it  is,  we  wish  to  Heaven  were  accurate  ;  but  a  prevalence 
of  the  principles  lie  professes,  has  shorn   otu-  country  of  her  beams 
and  robbed  her  of  her  lustre,— dirried  /le  sun  of  our  prosperity,  evap- 
orated "  the  showers,"  and  blasted  "  the  cfcrn.*'— His  moral  head   ia 
a  mere  farrago  upon  religion,  and,  in  the  beginning,  discovers  a  want 
of  liberality  that  ought  not  to  be  found  in  so  great  a  stickler   for  re-i 
ligioos  freedom,  who  execrates  so  vehemently  the  hierarchy  of  Eng- 
land.    He  more  than  intimates  that  persecution  is  to  be  feared^from 
the  opponents  to  his  politics,  if  they  should  be   In  power— rest  easy, 
Rev.  Sir,  your  opponents,  possessed  of  power,  would   forget  "  your 
\enom  and  your  froth*"  .■.,.. 

It  is  extremely  atausing  to  obsel've  5ome  of  the  inconsistencies  m 
this  work.— Ill  one  page  the  preacher  appears  the  most  strenuous  ad- 
vocate for  the  divine  rights  of  Kings  ;  for  the  doctrine  of  passive.o- 
bedience  and  non-resistance,  and  calls  in  the  aid  of  Omnipotence  to 
prove  his  belief  ;  not  remembering  that  in  a  few  pages  before  he 
breathed  blasphemy  on  the  ruler  of  his  native  land.— This  is  repub- 
licanism fresh  f  om  the  Schools  of  France. 

How  bitterly  the  gentleman  denounces  his  brothers  of  the  cloth, 
who  venture  to  lisp  a  word  against  the  immaculate  rulers  of  our  land. 
No,  the  clergy  must  not  talk  politics,— it  is  infamous,— it  is  seditious 
—according  to  his  creed,  while  he,  forsooth,  is  belching  slander    and 

calumny. 

Amidst  the  descriptions  of  those  who  despise  the  pleasant  land,  the 
preacher  has  contrived  to  introduce  the  «  Worthy  President'*  of  the 
United  Stales  by  way  of  contrast.— A  Jupiter  on  Olympus,  sur- 
rounded by  clouds,  and  darkness,  and  attacked  by  evil  spirits— -yet 
firm,  and  godlike  he  stands  as  unmoved  at  "  the  roaring  of  lions,"  as 
at  "  the  braying  of  an  ass,"  consulting  the  good  of  mortals,  notwith- 
standing their  rebellion.  He  is  equal  to  the  war  waged  against  him,— 
««  and  with  dignified  -omposure  and  silent  contempt,  he  hears  all  these 
unfounded  accusations  as  the  ebulitions  of  ignorance  or  of  a  maniac.*^ 
This  epic  flight  may  not  go  unrewarded— the  "  worthy  President" 
has  offices  and  honours  to  bestow,  and  money  to  distribute,  and  how 
sweet  must  this  fine  strain  of  panegyrick  sound  in  the  ears  of  the 
President,  who  has  been  so  lon^  accustomed  to  solemn  but  unpleas- 
ant truths  from  New-England  Divines. 

The  sentiments  in  these  Sermons  are  so  nicely  involved,  and  so 
•harmingly  jumbled,  that  one  migiu  as  well  follow  the  flight  of  the 
raven  in  the  mist,  and  note  all  his  croakings,  as  to  follow  the  parson 
in  his  democratic  rambiings  through  Time  and  Eternity,  over  Matter 
and  Mind,  War  &  Peace,  Democracy  and  Federalism— but  it  is  clearly 
understood  that  this  Minister  of  Peace  is  a  Friend  to  War,  and  calli 
loudly  on  his  followers  to  maintain  it  stoutly. 

Patriots,  ye  who  were  born  on  the  Atlantic  shores,  who  have  once 
buffeted  the  storm,  and  braved  the  tempest  of  war,  how  must  you 
blush  to  be  taught  your  duty  by  a  foreigner,  whose  love  tor  you,  and 


s,— it  is  sediUous 
ing  slander    and 


'"it  irtimc  10  be  «rious-our  all  i»  -n  jeop.rdy.-We  <^o«Ul  con|in. 
J  „  ,v  nlher  time,  to  treat  -vith  playful  severity  this  peilormance 
S;^  trt^rS;  '/fony.  and  pi.y  L  weaUn..  O^r  ho.es  o^r 
comforts,  our  privileges, our  "gh" »<•-/'' ^>  f'f^;  Q^\  J,„Mo 
TT;t'' wSrLfprCorrer'ce^rl'  Z  STn,  Canned 
C::X:o:.^o«    a„a  !;,dustry   -o  ?'{[-■"«, -S":r  comp  - 

-lrr:r?u:dt^rdr:«:t^^y•r  rf ii^;.; ...  .eJo.. 

horrenceof  the  following  sentiment  f™™ ''■»^",'^  °' V  ,„  therein  it 
.     "Letus>vai.awhile,andwemayli^etose^^^^^^^^ 
shall  not  be  said  by  the  voice  o  f^J'^' °'\'  °y '!''■ ,.. 

Babylon,  (England,)  iheK-:'^;  '■ 'TS  ever  rankled  in  the  heart,  or 
This  is  the  most  diabolical  *'f «'"'""  Line     But  coming  from 
wa«  ever  breathed  from  the  lips  ot  a  human  Being,     uui  ^   ^  JJ  ,- 

TmSer  ofthe  Gospel,  in  a  -'f  ,?„VeTt'\  "ig  ou     pur  .T   t'- 

land  States  ;  preached  ,n  \P'»«2ttT-3urew'he  sp  ri?  of  Napol- 

it  wears  the  marks  °  ,'^=  ^^^^I^X'^'al^r;^^^^^^^        sich  a  though,, 
ean  is  here;  no  fiend  less  than  he  could  have       P  ^^^^^^  ^.^ 

We  will  now  tate  leave  of  the  K=i'-  .,,°™,^  ^,bouts,  if  such  works 

^^  ^^^^^'  ,        r  I.      ^ofontitr  near  our  hearts,  in  the  dark- 

This  pleasure  we  have  felt,  constantly,  near  our  "*^^     '       ^  , 

tst  hour  of  our  political  despondency,  that  mtn  of  intellectual  we      , 


sgi^iWis**'''^''*-**'^"^'-^*"-^"'""' 


26 

of  pr.)l)l(y,  and  principle,  in  our  country  were  found  mostly  in  ^he 
^a,L  01  i  ecle.ali.ip.  '1  he  pulpiis(vvith  a  few  wretched  exceptions) 
iave  btcn  l.ep.  Lorn  the  tainte\l  air  of  democracy.  The  preachers 
of  the  ev^i  lasting  Gospel  have  sddom  failed  to  oppose  the  torrent  of 

'''' ll' KXalism  be  extinguished,  the  Priest  will  perish  at  the  Altar, 
Rid  the  Altar  be  razed  to  the  ground  ;  and  the  sad  fate  which  the  ene- 
mies of  Enal.rd  viJi  for  h,  .,  will  be  realized  in  the  history  of  our 
tifwnfall.-SufFer.iinotjOGoDl  stretch  thy  protecting  arm  to  save 


Fortije  gtnerol  conviction  of  the  public  rftspecting  the  literary 
character  of  Tl  e  Rev.  John  niLES,  I  Send  you  a  few  extracts  from 
the  writings  of  the  notorious  Thomas  Paine,  with  corrcbpondent  one? 
from  the  Reverend  Divine  above  mentioned-,  which,  to  say  nothing 
fiiore.  have  the  ofiptarancc  of  bein?;:  ropied  verbatim  from  Mr.  Paine, 
and  palmed  upon  the  wo*id  as  original. 


GMJLS-^ published  in  lCi2. 

**  Avd  here  we  observe  that  society 
in  every  state  Jfi  a  bltssiiijj  :  but  Rov- 
einm^nt  in  its  b^t  state  is  but  a  ne- 
cpsfiary  evil,  in  its  worat  stale  an  in- 
toli  fjible  one.  For  when  yve  sniTv-r  op 
arc  fxpostd  to  the  §ame  miseries  by 
a  government,  which  we  mipht  expect 
in  !t  country  without  povernment,  our 
calamity  is  heightened  by  reflecting 
that  we  furnish  the  tneans  by  Y\nch 
we  fiufli'r.  Government,  like  dress,  is 
the  badpe  of  lost  innocence.  The  pal- 
aces of  Kings  are  built  on  the  ruins  of 
the  bowers  of  Paradise." 

Discourse  Ist,  p.  4. 

"It  is  a  system  of  mental  levelling : 
It  indiscriminately  admits  every  spe- 
cies of  character  to  the  same  authori- 
ity.  Vice  and  virtue,  ignorance  and 
wisdom,  in  short  every  quality  good 
or  h}>d  is  put  on  the  same  level.  Kings 
sticceed  each  other  not  as  rationals  ; 
it  signifies  not  what  their  ment.^l  or 
ntoral  rhai  actera  are.  Such  a  govern- 
tnent  appears  under  all  the  various 
characters  of  childhwjd,  decrepitude 
and  dotiige  ;  a  thing  at  nurse,  in  lead- 
ing strings  or  in  crutches.    It  revers- 


VA\-SE-published  in  1776. 

"Society  in  every  state  is  a  blessingt 
but  Government  even  in  its  best  state 
is  but  a  necessary  evil,  in  its  worst 
state  an  intoleral)le  one.  For  when 
we  suffer  or  are  exposed  to  the  same 
miseries  by  a  government  which  we 
might  axpect  in  a  country  without  ^ov- 
f  rnment,  our  calamity  is  heightened 
by  reflecting  that  we  furnish  the  means 
by  v;hich  we  suffer.  Government  like 
dress  is  the  badge  of  lost  innocence. 
The  palaces  of  Kings  are  built  on  the 
ruins  of  the  bowers  of  Paradise." 

Common  Sense ,  p.  1. 


••  It  is  a  system  of  mental  levelling : 
it  indiscriminately  admits  every  spe- 
cies of  character  to  the  same  authori- 
ty. Vice  and  virtue,  ignorance  and 
wisdom,  in  short  every  quality  good 
or  bad  is  put  on  the  same  level.  Kings 
succeed  each  other  not  as  rationals 
but  as  animais,  It  signifies  oot  what 
their  mental  or  moral  characters  are." 

nights  of  Man,  2d  part,  p.  14i,  pub- 
lished 1792. 

*'  Jt  appears  under  all  the  various 
characters  of  childhood,  decrepitude, 


Mm*muiiXT'-n-^ 


27 


ftly  in  \hr. 
exceptions) 
e  preachers 
16  torrent  of 

the  Altar, 
ich  the  ene- 
tory  of  our 
urn  to  save 


the  literary 
[tracts  from 
(ondent  one? 

say  nothing 
1  Mr.  Paine, 


'inl77S. 

:  is  a  blessing; 
its  best  stAte 
,  in  its  worst 
!.  For  when 
1  to  the  same 
snl  which  we 
y  without  ^ov- 
is  heightened 
lish  the  means 
ivernment  like 
ost  innocence, 
■e  built  on  the 
nradise." 
'.  Sense,  p.  1. 


ntal  levelling : 
lits  every  spe- 
same  authori> 
ignorance  and 
quality  good 
le  level.  Kings 
»t  as  rationals 
nifies  oot  what 
laracters  are." 
irtf  p.  14,  pub- 

ill  the  various 
,  decrepitude, 


GILES— /»«A/i«Acrf  1812. 
u.  .he  wholesome  order  of  nature;  it 
bccasionally  puts  chJldrjen  over  men. 
knd  maniaca  to  rule  the  wiw.— It  re- 
£uires  some  talents  to  b  a  common 
Mechanic,  but  to  be  a  king  requires 
lonly  the  animal  figure  of  a  man,  a  sort 
Icf  breathing  automaton." 

Discourse  1st,  p.  3. 


'»  But  I  must  observe  that  I  am  not 
the  personal  enemy  of  kings.  No  man 
more  heartily  >«J8hes  than  myself  to  see 
them  all  in  the  happy  and  honourable 
slate  of  private  individuals.     But  I  am 
the  avowed  and  open  enemy  of  what 
iscalled  monarchy,  and  I  am  such  by 
Principles,  wliich  nothing  can  either 
4ter  or  corrupt— that  is  by  my  attach- 
Irnent  to  humanity -by  the    anxiety 
which  I  feel  within  my  self  .for  the  ease 
'and  honour  of  the  human  race,  by  the 
Idisgust  which  1  experienced  when  1 
Userved  men   directed  by  children, 
Ud  governed  by  brutes— by  the  hor- 
Vours,  which  all  the  evils  that  monar- 
chy  has  spread  over  the  earth  excite 
ithin  my  breast— and  by  those  senti- 
lents,  which  make  me  shudder  at  the 
Icalamities,  the  exactions,  the  wars, 
"and  the  massacres  with   which  mon- 
itrchy  has  crushed  mankind-" 

'  p,  5. 


•*  Let  us  enlarge  a  little  on  this  sen- 
Itiment.     All  religions  are  in  thejr  iia- 
ture  mild  and  benign,  and  un^tedwlth 
principles  of  morality.    They  could 
not  have  proselytes  at  first,  by  pro- 
fessing  any  thing  which  was  vicious 
and  persecuting  or  immoral.     How  is 
it  then  that  they  lose  their  native 
mildness  and  become  morose  and  in- 
tolerant \    It  proceeds  from  an  alli- 
ance between  church  and  state.    1  he 
inquisition  in  Spain  and  Portugal  does 
not  proceed  from  the  religiin  ongmal- 
ly  professed,  but  from  this  mule  anu 
mal  las  one  calls  j'O  engendered  be- 
tween church  and  state.    The  burn- 
ings  in  Smithfield  proceeded  from  the 
same  heterogenous  production  ;  and 
it  was  the  regeneration  of  this  strange 
animal  afterwards  [in  the  Nation  noto 
called  the  Bulwark  of  our  Jieligion] 
which  revived  rancor  and  irreligwn 


PAlNE-/)uA/w/.erf  1776-1791. 
dotage ;  a  thing  at  nursie,  in  leading 
strings  or  in  crutches.  It  reverses 
the  wholesome  order  of  nature.  It 
occasionally  puts  children  over  men 
and  the  conceits  of  nonage  ever  v>itdom 
and  experience."    p  15 

♦•  It  requires  some  talents  to  be  a 
common  mechanic,  but  to  be  a  king 
requires  only  the  animal  figure  of  a 
roan,  a  sort  of  breathing  automaton.' 

p.  16. 

•'  I  must  slso  add  that  1  am  not  the 
personal  enemy  of  Kings.  Quite  the 
contrary.  No  man  more  heartily  wish- 
es than  myselt  to  see  them  all  in  the 
happy  and  honorable  state  of  private 
individuals.     But  I  am  the  avowed, 
open  and  intrepid  enemy  of  what  i* 
called  monarohy ;  and  I  am  such,  by 
principles  which  nothing  can  either  al- 
ter or  corrupt— by  my  attachment  to 
humanity— by  the  anxiety,  which    I 
feel  within  myself,  lor  the  dignity  and 
honor  of  the  human  race— by  the  dis- 
gust which  I  experience,  when  I  ob- 
served men,  directed  by  children,  and 
governed  by  brutes— by  the  horror, 
which  all  the  evils  that  monarchy  has 
spread  over  the  earth,  excite  withm 
my  breast— and  by  those  sentiments,- 
which  make  me  shudder  at  the  calam- 
ities, the  exactions,  the  wars,  and  the 
massacres  with  which  monarchy  his 
crushed  mankind."    Fatness  Letter  to 
Abbe  Seyeys,  1791. 

"  Let  us  bestow  a  few  thoughts  on 
this  subject.  All  religions  are  in  their 
nature  mild  and  benign,  and  united 
with  principles  of  morality.  They  could 
not  have  made  proselites  at  first  by 
professing  any  thing  that  was  vicioui 
and  persecuting,  or  immor  d.     How- 
then,  is  it  that  they  lose  their  native 
mildness,  and    become    morose  and 
intolerant  ?  It  proceeds  from  the  con- 
nexion  which  Mr.  Burke  recommends. 
The  inquisition  in  Spain  does  not  pro- 
ceed  from  the  religion  originally  pro- 
fessed,  but  from  this  mule  animal  en- 
gendered  between  the   church  and 
state  The  burnings  in  Smithficld.pro- 
ceeded  fropi  the  same  heterogeneous 
production  ;   and  it  was  the  regene- 
ration of  this  strange  animal  m  Eng- 
land  afterwards,  that  renewed  rancour 
and  irreligion  among  the  inhabitants 
and  which  drove  the  people  caUe4 


\ 


/ 


/. 


28 


sjTionff  t'le  inh:ibU..nts  ll»ere,  and 
whicli  (l.ove  the  people  called  dissen< 
ters  and  quakers  lo  this  country.  Per- 
secution 19  not  an  original  feature  iti 
any  religion;  but  it  is  the  strongly 
nwrked  picture  of  all  law  religions,  or 
rligions  establialied  by  hw.  Take 
away  til.:  law-establisliuient, and  eve- 
fy  religion  re-asstimes  its  original  be- 
nignity, liere  in  America,  a  catholic 
priest  \%  a  good  citizen,  a  good  char- 
acter,  and  a  good  nuighbonr  ;  the 
same  may  be  sKid  of  ministers  of  otli- 
er  denominations,  and  this  proceeds, 
independent  of  men,  from  there  be- 
ing no  bweslablislunent  in  America." 
Discourse  lst,p.  8. 

*•  Toleration  is  not  the  opposite  of 
intoleration  but  is  the  counterfeit  of 
it;  both  are  despotisms.  .  'I'lie  one  as- 
sumt'S  to  itself  the  right  of  withhold 
ing  liberty  of  conscience  and  the  other 
of  granting  it.  The  one  i.s  the  Pope. 
armed  with  fire  and  faggot,  and  the 
ptlier  is  thu  Pope  selling  or  grantin_Lj 
indulgt>nc)es.  The  f  )rmer  is  churcli 
and  sttte,  the  latter  is  church  and  traf- 
*ic."  p  7        . 

•'Never  had  a  country  so  many  o. 
penings  to  hupj^incss  as  this  ,-  her  set- 
tnigoutinto  li.i ,  hke  the  rising  of  a 
fair  morning,  wa.s  unclouded  and 
promising' ;  Iter  cnuse  was  good  :  her 
principks  just  and  liberal  ;  her  con. 
duct  regulated  by  the  nicest  steps, 
«nd  every  thing  about  her  wore  the 
^ark  of  honor."     p. 8. 


vkmE^'pHiishedvnL 


quakers  and  dissenters  to  Amerifla, 
Persecution  is  not  an  original  feature 
in  any  religion  ;  but  it  is  always  the 
.slrfingly-rparked  fuatUre  of  all  law 
religions,  or  relitjions  established  by 
law.  Take^  away  the  law-establish- 
ment, and  every  religion  r;e-assumes 
its  original  benignity.  In  America, 
a  catholic  pri-'st  is'  a  good  citizen, 
a  good  character,  and  a  gqod  neigh- 
bour ;  an  Episcopalian  is  of  the  same 
description  and  this  proceeds,  inde. 
pendeiit  of  men,  fronri'  there  being 
no  Isw.establisbment  in' America."— 
Pmne't  Right*  of  Atari,  Itft  part,  p. 
60. 


••  Toleration  is  not  ths  opposite  of 
intoleration,  hut  is  the  counttjrfeit  of 
it.  Both  are  despotisms.  The  one 
assumes  to  iiself  the  right  of  withhold, 
ing  liberty  of  conscience  and  the  other 
of  granting  it.  The  one  is  the  Pope, 
armed  with  fire  ;ind  f-^ggot,  and  the 
otiier  is  the  Pope,  selling  or  grantin.'j 
indal^encies  The  former  is  church 
and  state,  and  the  latter  is  church  aad 
tPHffi?.  Istpart,  p.  58. 

'  Never  I  say  had  a  country  so  many 
opeiiio,2rs  to  happiness  as  this ;  her  set- 
ting out  in  life,  like  the  rising  of  a 
fair  morning,  was  unclouded  and 
pnunising  ;  her  cauae  was  good  ;  her 
principtes  just  and  liberal  ;  her  tem- 
per serene  and  firm  ;  her  conduct  re- 
julated  bv  the  nicest  stepa,  and  eve- 
ry thing  about  her  wore  the  mark  of 
honor." 

Fame's  Crialt,  No.  13,  p.  18. 


These  are  some  of  the  sentences,  which  Mr.  Giles  has  pillaged 
from  the  writings  of  a  man,  dcscrvetHy  consigned  to  infamy,  and  in- 
corporated with  his  discourse,  without  even  the  form  of  an  acknow- 
ledgment. He  was  probably  not  insensible  to  the  disgrace  of  being 
so  nchly  indebted  to  a  man,  whose  works,  he  had  termed  "frantic 
lavings  against  the  Christian  Religion  ;"  although  he  atoned  for  his 
fteyeniy  by  pionouncing  these  works  innocent,  compared  with  th« 
writings  of  his  Federal  brethren  in  the  Gospel. 


nal  feature 
always  the 
if  all  law 
blislied  by 
iv-estub1ish< 
rje -assumes 
1  America. 
0(1  citizen, 
qod  neigli' 
f  the  same 
Beds,  inde. 
lei'e  being 
merica."— 
Itft  party  p. 


opposite  of 
intijifeit  of 

The  one 
f  withhold, 
d  the  other 
\  the  Pope, 
t,  and  the 
)r  grantin.'j 

is  church 
church  aad 
rt,  p.  58. 
ry  so  many 
IS;  her  set- 
•isinjj  of  a 
uded  and 
gfood  ;  her 
i  her  tem- 
onduct  re- 
3,  and  eve- 
be  mark  of 

,  p.  18. 

I  pillaged 
fy  and  in- 
I  acknow- 
:  of  being 

"  frantic 
id  for  his 

with  th« 


•  I 


